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Help me, can my i5-2500k really be this bad?

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http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/corsair_vengeance_8gb/3.htm

They seem to have got it running higher at 1940.

Yeah I think I saw options in the BIOS to change RAM timings, I could also try the MSI Control Centre, except I don't trust it now since it's giving me false data.

What did you get your sticks down to in the end? I suppose I'll then have to download some memory testing utilities to validate the stability of those.

They have it running like that on a different platform. Sandy Bridge does not allow for small incremental changes in memory overclocking. My Vengeance sticks ran 1880 on 1366, but will not run 1866, and least not with an early bios. I'm running them at 1600 8-8-8-24 1T on 1.58v.
 
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