Notebooks & Netbooks

[MaoTin]

Hello,

recently Iv bought a new Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) 1866MHZ memory cards, however when i installed these cards they showed no changes from previous cards which were also Kingston 8gb (2x4GB) cards with 1330MHZ.

Is there a way how to get 1866MHZ activated instead of staying with default 1330MHZ, otherwise I have throwed away money.

[JackE]

What indication of no-change were you basing your conclusion on? Your machine can probably use even faster 2x4gb kit ram if it was available but not necessarily result in better performance. You might have been better off trying to see if your machine and OS could recognize and use a 2x8gb kit despite its advertized 2x4gb max.

Jack E/NJ

[IRBabuin]

What kind of HyperX? Blue, Red, Black, PNP? There are several reviews on the web that show that HyperX PNP can make you RAM work faster, 1600/1866.

http://www.legitreviews.com/kingston-hyperx-8gb-1866mhz-pnp-memory-kit-for-notebooks_1599/3

[MaoTin]

I just needed a bios upgrade. When I did it it set an options to an auto detect, before it was default which was 1330 MHZ.

Thank you for help.

[brummyfan2]

I do agree with JackE's suggestion of trying with 2x8GB ( some have succeded but can not gurantee that for you), reason being that your chipset HM65 only capable of 1600MHz, so even if you update the BIOS, I doubt very much you can achieve 1866MHz.

[MaoTin]

Well, after upgrading bios and runing Aida it shows me that now I have 8gb ram with 1866MHz.

[JackE]

Good for you! Do you notice an improvement in performance and speed in use?

Jack E/NJ

[MaoTin]

Not realy, however windows performance tester, that one in computer properties and performance, it changed index for processor and graphics, it is weird.

Processor was 6.7 now 6.8

Memory was 7.4 now 7.4

Graphics was 5.9 now 6.6

Gaming Graphics was 6.5 now 6.6

Disk was 5.9 now 5.9 It is also weird because, I changed my HDD too, same sieze, but technical spec. was lower, this one had to be better.

[JackE]

Perhaps you could adjust performance tool settings to see if they change one way or another. Let us know. Interesting stuff!

Jack E/NJ

[MaoTin]

Give me more tips what to do, because windows experience index shows only these final numbers, even if I rerun the assessment tool.