This is going to be a quick guide on how to install memory. I realize I might
have sort of uh poked fun at anyone who doesn't know how to install memory in
one of my recent videos. And for that, I feel terribly bad. But uh yeah, this is
going to just be a basic guide. So, step one is going to be ground yourself out
touching a pluggedin power supply. Just like that. Step two, you can see I've
already installed two of this triple channel kit. So, two of the modules, but
I'm going to go ahead and install the third module. Now this ASUS board, this
is the Rampage 3 Extreme is a little bit different from most motherboards because
on the one side these are not proper clips and on the other side they are
proper clips. So what you do is you just push this side in. Okay? You make sure
it's in the right spot. Push this side in. Okay? And then you push down the
other side of the module until the clip goes in. Now if you had clips on both
sides, then you'd actually push it in evenly and then the clips would go on both sides. It's fairly straightforward.
Now, that was it for the physical installation, but this is the part that
some people actually don't know about. If you install new memory in your system
and boot it up, most motherboards are
going to default to a safe setting rather than the actual capabilities of
the RAM modules you installed. So, this motherboard is um I just put in two
rather two 6 gigs of
DDR3600 MHz. Okay. And so 1600 MHz is
the speed and it also runs at C9 timings. Okay, overclocking failed.
Please enter setup. Blah blah blah. Uh, press F1 to run setup. That's what I
want to do. So you can see right here, it is not running at 1600 MHz. Right off
the bat, we see that. So the first thing we're going to change is the DRM
frequency. And yeah, I pressed the right button. So we're going to set that to
1600 MHz. Select okay to use the current
DRM voltage. uh something automatically.
Oh, okay. Select cancel to increase the DRM voltage automatically if your dims
require higher voltage. Well, we're going to do it uh we're not going to do
it automatically. We're going to do it manually. And this is something that you
may not be able to tell by looking at the modules or even by looking at the
packaging. See, on these, all we can see here is a part number. So, with that,
you can uh throw the part number on the Kingston website and then find out
exactly what all the settings are you need for your RAM. So, there's the frequency, which is 1,600. We've already
set that. Then there's the latencies. And usually for even for an intermediate
to advanced user, you're only going to set four latencies. Um, and the most
important one for performance is the CL or cast latency. So here we've got that
set. And then the last one is the voltage. We're going to do the voltage
next here. So this RAM is rated at 1.65 65 volts just like most DDR3 kits for
Core i5 and Core i7 because it's not recommended to use a higher voltage than
that for these chips uh due to the integrated memory controller. So, I'm
actually going to go a touch lower. Most quality RAM is going to run at its rated
speed even with a little bit less voltage anyway. But that's one of the
ways to be able to Okay, here these are all the different ways to be able to
tell a quality kit from a lower quality kit. Frequency, higher frequency is
good. Latency, lower latency is good. and voltage. Lower voltage is good. So,
the ideal memory kit would run at the fastest frequency with the lowest
latency and the lowest voltage. Obviously, like anything in computers,
it's always a bit of a trade-off, but this is a fairly mainstream kit. And uh
let me just see if there's anything that we can do to get a little bit further
into this RAM configuration. This is a very very performanceoriented board, so
I'm sure I'm going to find something here. Uh might be under advanced CPU
config. No, no. Sometimes you find the
uh RAM settings under CPU these days because it is running off the integrated
controller on the CPU. Uh it might just be a matter of setting Oh, cool. XMPP
modules. Yeah. Or XMPP profiles. This is another thing I wanted to talk about. Uh
this is a way for your RAM to have a little setting on it that tells your
motherboard what all of its default settings are. So here you see 1600 MHz
99927. That's the latency. uh 1 N. So
that's like kind of like the old onet 2T timing. Uh one is better. And then
you've got 1.65 volts to 1.4 volts. There you go. Look at that. So XMPP is a
pretty cool thing. EP is the NVIDIA equivalent. And then the other one is
CPU ROG and then manual. So if we go to
manual, then I'm guessing it will actually let me set something other than
the DRAM frequency. Here it's going to give me that warning again. Memory
configuration. Ah, timing control. Here we go. So, here you can see it's already
set to almost the right things, but I can actually set the latencies myself.
So, you can either go in and set the all the uh frequency, latency, and voltage
yourself, or you can 27 was actually what it was rated
for. And then, let me just see if I can find the Ah, yes, one end. Here we go.
So, now it is set manually to what it's supposed to be. Or if you want to make
life easy for yourself, you can just go in
and 65. Oops. Oh, I just almost set my
CPU voltage to 1.65. Bad. Bad. Very bad.
Uh 1.65. There we go. Or you can just use
an XMP profile to do it for you. So, I'm just going to reboot and show you that
now we have not only installed our RAM, but we have also configured it to work
properly. My next guide will probably be more like
RAM overclocking and how to do that because it's it's actually quite simple.
You just turn the frequency up, turn the timings down, and turn the voltage up.
It's basically like CPU overclocking. More frequency, more
volts, and then profit. So, here you go. Everything's
going to be set the way it's supposed to be. And wasn't that fun? Thanks for
checking out my video blog and my guide on installing and configuring your new
memory modules. And a big thanks to Kingston for providing this RAM. Don't
forget that if you are subscribed and you leave a comment under my unboxing of
this Kingston 6 gig kit, then you can be qualified to win it.