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how do i get a higher overclock it seems i can only get 2200mhz

Wile E

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i just did something in dram under the latency. i lowered the latency to 2.5 from 3 and then there was somthing else that had to do with the case latency and some other thing and i lowered that and now my computer wont even start it turns on but the screen stays black it doent even go anywhere not nothing no bios nothing. uggg. how do i fix this????
Oh, and you don't want to lower latency if you're having stability issues. Lowering the latency is actually harder on the ram. It works the opposite of the ram speed. lower=faster
 
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Oh, and you don't want to lower latency if you're having stability issues. Lowering the latency is actually harder on the ram. It works the opposite of the ram speed. lower=faster

This is true.
From what I understand, a latency number is how many clock cycles the memory is left open for whatever setting you're changing. The computer doesn't know when the memory is actually done doing whatever task needs to be done, so you have these latency timings. For example, when the memory reads the data, it gives it 2, 2.5, 3, etc. clock cycles before it assumes it's finished reading. If the memory is not done reading, the computer will cut off the end of the operation, the data will corrupt, and the system will crash.
 
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