24GB of RAM Detected in Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit on the Rampge III Extreme Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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got a quick update on uh detecting the 24 gigs of RAM I found an article on BCC
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hardware.com and uh they are talking about 24 gigs of
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RAM and detection on the ASRock x58
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supercomputer and they said that they had to enable a an option in the BIOS
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called the flexibility option in order to see all 24 gigs of memory so I'm
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going to go ahead and see if I can find anything in the BIOS of the Rampage 3
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Extreme like a flexibility option that will enable me to detect all 24 gigs of
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this RAM 16 gigs is a very strange uh
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thing to be locked at I mean I already looked for it but I didn't find anything
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last time and it's based on what I'm reading it's got
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to be in there somewhere one thing I've noticed is the post takes quite a bit
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longer with 24 gigs of RAM it's not a problem the system is stable but um it
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does just take a little bit longer I also tried this stuff at 1600 MHz C9 C10
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1.65 volt Max and I was not able to have
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any success uh setting that up so I figured hey it's worth a shot right so
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why don't we just go through kind of uh one by one so CPU level up CPU level up
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that's just automated overclocking sync mode okay so this allows you to use uh
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okay not going to be relevant to what we're doing why don't we set the
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overclock tuner to
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manual okay OC from CPU level up okay
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okay so that's what we already saw before it just went and moved it on us
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CPU ratio setting CPU configuration maybe it's in
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here no we already looked in here we need
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a20m speed
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step I do not see anything in here that
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even looks remotely like what we need all of these frequency settings oh
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memory configuration protect maybe
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that's what this does okay let's try it
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because I I remember looking at this one last time and it to me that looks like
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um a lot of the time you have to actually enable overclocking features
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like if you like you know see how I set it to manual and all of a sudden I had
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options for like uh setting the CPU multiplier stuff like that I thought
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that that was just to prevent you from changing RAM timings or something but
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you can see that whether that was enabled or disabled I still had those
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same memory options so why don't we see if that is what preent is preventing us
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from seeing all 24 gigs of
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RAM see if I can kill some more time while we're booting up good thing I have
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an SSD oh look and a knife so I could
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open boxes speaking of opening boxes here's some unboxings that I have coming
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up soon hyperx RAM fan couple Kingston
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ssds one of which I will be giving away so stay tuned and then I've got a Cooler
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Master notebook cooler and then there's a rampage 3 Extreme box down there so
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you've seen that already all right let's see what we got here task
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manager yes there we go we have 24 gigs
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of RAM so that was it it was the the protect option that enabled us to have
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access to all 24 gigs of memory so why don't we see if our blend is uh still
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stay you know it's funny I'm going to have to find a new memory testing
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program because even using prime 95
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blend I can't I can't even touch I can't even touch the RAM um we've still got 20
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gigs of memory free so um yeah feel free
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to post a comment under this video if you have any suggestions for a way to
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actually stress 24 gigs of RAM other than running m test for like the 3 days
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