Which cooler is best for Intel i7 ?

Like I said... CPU-Z is easier.








Two things...

1. I've been using AIDA64, since it was called Lavalys Everest.
2. If you wanna play "my dog is bigger than your dog... find someone else.

Tools, DRAM Timings in AIDA

jds63 said:

Same timing numbers gave before and voltage

Also... for my motherboard, anyway, I left all other AI Tweaker settings at auto.
I set just the frequency, timings and voltage.
Sometimes, you just need to play around with the timings.

For timings, the higher the numbers, the more "relaxed" the timings. Should help with stability.
Also... mine wouldn't get "stable" w/o "guessing" at the DRAM RAS# PRE Time, setting. ??

With DRAM RAS# PRE Time left on auto...mine just wouldn't boot.





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The only other thing I can think of... is flash the BIOS to the latest non-Beta version.
Motherboard chipset too.

jds63 said:

Only one other BIOS to newest already done that.
Not familiar with playing around with timings and voltage in BIOS.

Now... I'm not very familiar with it either. I quit overclocking two builds (about 10 years ago).
The ONLY advantage I had with an AMD board, is that the names for the timings were similar to the CPU-Z names.

I haven't run an Intel CPU since about 1999. But in all the topics I've seen, on this and other forums... folks just turned on XMP, and that was pretty much all they needed to do.

These days... I always have a full OS image backup when I mess around with RAM timings.
Get them a bit too far out... and poof... Windows corruption.

The absolute last thing I can think of (totally non technical), is that when I finally got my RAM freq., timings, and voltage dialed in... it didn't boot the first time... but I accidentally rebooted a 2nd time... and it worked.

It's stayed stable ever since.