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Made a USB Boot Drive from the PassMark MemTest86 v8.4 Free, and booted that to test memory. I am deep into the second of four passes with Zero Errors (and typing on her InWin Chopin) so I expect the other lengthy passes will also succeed with Zero Errors.

A couple of oddities about GigaByte BIOS settings;
The Dram voltage ends up slightly higher than what you set, both in a summary to the right of BIOS Dram Voltage setting, and on HWiNFO. So you might want to compensate for that extra small bump-up. One good way to observe this is to Boot-into-BIOS a second time and look at the new summary.
There are two places in BIOS for changing the memory timings. One of those places (Settings/AMD Overclocking) does nothing??
Thanks immensely for the help with AMD memory tuning. That was like a foreign language to me.

Oh btw> I said that I could not make this build get hot. That was wrong. When I let Prime95 run for a long time it did get to 80c. One thing which I am curious about. When you do get high temps, is it okay to allow temperature throttling to occur? Or should you hurry to shut it down?

<blockquote data-quote="PVC" data-source="post: 232031" data-attributes="member: 20573">Made a USB Boot Drive from the PassMark MemTest86 v8.4 Free, and booted that to test memory. I am deep into the second of four passes with Zero Errors (and typing on her InWin Chopin) so I expect the other lengthy passes will also&nbsp; succeed with Zero Errors.A couple of oddities about GigaByte BIOS settings;<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Dram voltage ends up slightly higher than what you set, both in a summary to the right of BIOS Dram Voltage setting, and on HWiNFO. So you might want to compensate for that extra small bump-up. One good way to observe this is to Boot-into-BIOS a second time and look at the new summary.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">There are two places in BIOS for changing the memory timings. One of those places (Settings/AMD Overclocking) does nothing?? </li>
</ul>Thanks immensely for the help with AMD memory tuning. That was like a foreign language to me.Oh btw&gt; I said that I could not make this build get hot. That was wrong. When I let Prime95 run for a long time it did get to 80c. One thing which I am curious about. When you do get high temps, is it okay to allow temperature throttling to occur? Or should you hurry to shut it down?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PVC, post: 232031, member: 20573"] Made a USB Boot Drive from the PassMark MemTest86 v8.4 Free, and booted that to test memory. I am deep into the second of four passes with Zero Errors (and typing on her InWin Chopin) so I expect the other lengthy passes will also succeed with Zero Errors. A couple of oddities about GigaByte BIOS settings; [LIST] [*]The Dram voltage ends up slightly higher than what you set, both in a summary to the right of BIOS Dram Voltage setting, and on HWiNFO. So you might want to compensate for that extra small bump-up. One good way to observe this is to Boot-into-BIOS a second time and look at the new summary. [*]There are two places in BIOS for changing the memory timings. One of those places (Settings/AMD Overclocking) does nothing?? [/LIST] Thanks [U][I][B]immensely[/B][/I][/U] for the help with AMD memory tuning. That was like a foreign language to me. Oh btw> I said that I could [U]not[/U] make this build get hot. That was wrong. When I let Prime95 run for a long time it did get to 80c. One thing which I am curious about. When you do get high temps, is it okay to allow temperature throttling to occur? Or should you hurry to shut it down? [/QUOTE]

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