Memory timming and voltage

Question

okay i have 2 512 sticks of golden dragon ddr 3200
what do you guys recommend for the voltage and timming it is currenlty 2.60 and all eles is auto i dont quite understand timming very well yet so speaking in lamens turms would be much appreicated.
oh and if any one was wondering im still have problems with crashing w/ the high pitch squeal replace power supplie twice now.

Answer 1

The voltage you mention (2.60V) should be fine.  If for whatever reason you find that the RAM is making the system unstable, you can try increasing it to 2.65V or (at most) 2.70V.  If you want to specify the other timings, you'll have to disable the "Auto" setting (doing so should bring up a number of new configuration options).  In the new fields that show up, there should be one called either "CAS Latency" or "Column Address Strobe", and you'll want to set that to 2.5 to start out with.  There should be three other fields where you can specify numberic values.  For two of them, the lowest possible value will be '2'.  Enter '3' for both of these fields, and then in the remaining one, enter a '6'.  If you find that your system is stable at these settings (and it should be, it's what your RAM is rated for), you can come back and try specifying lower numbers to see if you can get any extra performance (though in my experience, there doesn't seem to be any measurable performance difference in going from CAS2-2-2-5 to CAS2.5-3-3-6.  Note that if you're overclocking, you will likely need to enter higher values here in order to keep things stable.
As far as crashing with the high-pitched noise goes, do you have a second HDD you can try in the system?  If so, take your current one(s) out and install the new one and run the system for awhile and see if the problem goes away...my guess is that it might be your HDD letting you know that it's about to fail.