WEBVTT 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:06.799 This is going to be a quick guide on how to install memory. I realize I might 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:10.080 have sort of uh poked fun at anyone who doesn't know how to install memory in 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:14.480 one of my recent videos. And for that, I feel terribly bad. But uh yeah, this is 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:18.320 going to just be a basic guide. So, step one is going to be ground yourself out 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:22.240 touching a pluggedin power supply. Just like that. Step two, you can see I've 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:25.439 already installed two of this triple channel kit. So, two of the modules, but 00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:29.679 I'm going to go ahead and install the third module. Now this ASUS board, this 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:34.239 is the Rampage 3 Extreme is a little bit different from most motherboards because 00:00:32.160 --> 00:00:37.840 on the one side these are not proper clips and on the other side they are 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:42.520 proper clips. So what you do is you just push this side in. Okay? You make sure 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:46.960 it's in the right spot. Push this side in. Okay? And then you push down the 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:50.480 other side of the module until the clip goes in. Now if you had clips on both 00:00:48.800 --> 00:00:55.840 sides, then you'd actually push it in evenly and then the clips would go on both sides. It's fairly straightforward. 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:59.199 Now, that was it for the physical installation, but this is the part that 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:04.080 some people actually don't know about. If you install new memory in your system 00:01:00.879 --> 00:01:06.560 and boot it up, most motherboards are 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:11.119 going to default to a safe setting rather than the actual capabilities of 00:01:08.880 --> 00:01:17.400 the RAM modules you installed. So, this motherboard is um I just put in two 00:01:14.320 --> 00:01:21.840 rather two 6 gigs of 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:24.000 DDR3600 MHz. Okay. And so 1600 MHz is 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:28.159 the speed and it also runs at C9 timings. Okay, overclocking failed. 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:31.439 Please enter setup. Blah blah blah. Uh, press F1 to run setup. That's what I 00:01:29.759 --> 00:01:37.119 want to do. So you can see right here, it is not running at 1600 MHz. Right off 00:01:34.479 --> 00:01:41.680 the bat, we see that. So the first thing we're going to change is the DRM 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:47.200 frequency. And yeah, I pressed the right button. So we're going to set that to 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:50.240 1600 MHz. Select okay to use the current 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:52.320 DRM voltage. uh something automatically. 00:01:50.240 --> 00:01:55.840 Oh, okay. Select cancel to increase the DRM voltage automatically if your dims 00:01:54.320 --> 00:01:58.719 require higher voltage. Well, we're going to do it uh we're not going to do 00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:02.399 it automatically. We're going to do it manually. And this is something that you 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:07.200 may not be able to tell by looking at the modules or even by looking at the 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:10.879 packaging. See, on these, all we can see here is a part number. So, with that, 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:14.879 you can uh throw the part number on the Kingston website and then find out 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:20.879 exactly what all the settings are you need for your RAM. So, there's the frequency, which is 1,600. We've already 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:25.680 set that. Then there's the latencies. And usually for even for an intermediate 00:02:23.920 --> 00:02:30.239 to advanced user, you're only going to set four latencies. Um, and the most 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:35.280 important one for performance is the CL or cast latency. So here we've got that 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:39.280 set. And then the last one is the voltage. We're going to do the voltage 00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:45.120 next here. So this RAM is rated at 1.65 65 volts just like most DDR3 kits for 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:49.040 Core i5 and Core i7 because it's not recommended to use a higher voltage than 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:52.400 that for these chips uh due to the integrated memory controller. So, I'm 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:56.160 actually going to go a touch lower. Most quality RAM is going to run at its rated 00:02:54.560 --> 00:03:00.160 speed even with a little bit less voltage anyway. But that's one of the 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:03.440 ways to be able to Okay, here these are all the different ways to be able to 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:08.000 tell a quality kit from a lower quality kit. Frequency, higher frequency is 00:03:05.519 --> 00:03:12.560 good. Latency, lower latency is good. and voltage. Lower voltage is good. So, 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:16.480 the ideal memory kit would run at the fastest frequency with the lowest 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:20.400 latency and the lowest voltage. Obviously, like anything in computers, 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:25.760 it's always a bit of a trade-off, but this is a fairly mainstream kit. And uh 00:03:23.440 --> 00:03:30.000 let me just see if there's anything that we can do to get a little bit further 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:33.720 into this RAM configuration. This is a very very performanceoriented board, so 00:03:32.239 --> 00:03:40.640 I'm sure I'm going to find something here. Uh might be under advanced CPU 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:42.959 config. No, no. Sometimes you find the 00:03:40.640 --> 00:03:48.799 uh RAM settings under CPU these days because it is running off the integrated 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:53.360 controller on the CPU. Uh it might just be a matter of setting Oh, cool. XMPP 00:03:51.440 --> 00:03:58.159 modules. Yeah. Or XMPP profiles. This is another thing I wanted to talk about. Uh 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:01.360 this is a way for your RAM to have a little setting on it that tells your 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:07.439 motherboard what all of its default settings are. So here you see 1600 MHz 00:04:04.040 --> 00:04:09.680 99927. That's the latency. uh 1 N. So 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:14.560 that's like kind of like the old onet 2T timing. Uh one is better. And then 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:19.040 you've got 1.65 volts to 1.4 volts. There you go. Look at that. So XMPP is a 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:24.960 pretty cool thing. EP is the NVIDIA equivalent. And then the other one is 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:27.360 CPU ROG and then manual. So if we go to 00:04:24.960 --> 00:04:31.600 manual, then I'm guessing it will actually let me set something other than 00:04:29.280 --> 00:04:35.919 the DRAM frequency. Here it's going to give me that warning again. Memory 00:04:33.840 --> 00:04:39.840 configuration. Ah, timing control. Here we go. So, here you can see it's already 00:04:37.919 --> 00:04:44.080 set to almost the right things, but I can actually set the latencies myself. 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:49.240 So, you can either go in and set the all the uh frequency, latency, and voltage 00:04:46.520 --> 00:04:54.320 yourself, or you can 27 was actually what it was rated 00:04:52.080 --> 00:04:59.600 for. And then, let me just see if I can find the Ah, yes, one end. Here we go. 00:04:57.520 --> 00:05:03.919 So, now it is set manually to what it's supposed to be. Or if you want to make 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:09.039 life easy for yourself, you can just go in 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:12.479 and 65. Oops. Oh, I just almost set my 00:05:09.039 --> 00:05:13.479 CPU voltage to 1.65. Bad. Bad. Very bad. 00:05:12.479 --> 00:05:18.400 Uh 1.65. There we go. Or you can just use 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:23.440 an XMP profile to do it for you. So, I'm just going to reboot and show you that 00:05:20.880 --> 00:05:28.639 now we have not only installed our RAM, but we have also configured it to work 00:05:26.080 --> 00:05:32.400 properly. My next guide will probably be more like 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:36.240 RAM overclocking and how to do that because it's it's actually quite simple. 00:05:34.080 --> 00:05:40.160 You just turn the frequency up, turn the timings down, and turn the voltage up. 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:45.080 It's basically like CPU overclocking. More frequency, more 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:49.039 volts, and then profit. So, here you go. Everything's 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:54.720 going to be set the way it's supposed to be. And wasn't that fun? Thanks for 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:58.720 checking out my video blog and my guide on installing and configuring your new 00:05:56.960 --> 00:06:02.560 memory modules. And a big thanks to Kingston for providing this RAM. Don't 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:07.520 forget that if you are subscribed and you leave a comment under my unboxing of 00:06:04.880 --> 00:06:11.360 this Kingston 6 gig kit, then you can be qualified to win it.