Review on 💾 G.SKILL RipjawsX Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory F3-14900CL10D-16GBXL by Keith Iverson

Name: 💾 G.SKILL RipjawsX Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory F3-14900CL10D-16GBXL
Item: 💾 G.SKILL RipjawsX Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory F3-14900CL10D-16GBXL
Rating: 5

November 10, 2022

Great Memory for Older PCs - BUT YOU MUST SET THE CLOCK RIGHT

If you want to take full advantage of an old PC (I have a z77 Extreme4MB with an LGA 1155 Intel processor) then RAM performance is a very good choice . This RAM frequency is 1866 Hz, but if you keep your BIOS default it will only run at 1600. So make sure you adjust the RAM settings in your BIOS to run at 1866 (or 1867, depending depending on what it says) and change the clock to 133 Hz i.e. 133.33333 x 14. If you don't get both of these right you will experience system crashes and performance stutters, if you leave the default settings it will run at 1600, clocked at 100 (slower), which of course is 100 x 16

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