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    MemSet alternative?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Vyga, Oct 22, 2016.

  1. Vyga

    Vyga Notebook Enthusiast

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    By any chance some one know some software alternative to MemSet? I want to change my RAM timings on my laptop to get stable overclock, unfortunately, MemSet is the only software I managed to find which is capable to do some of the work. But it is old and it doesn't fully work on newer sticks (incorrect readings, setting CAS to 10 tho it displays 7 and so on...) and I can change only some of timings.

    Also maybe some one have older versions of MemSet? Via google I can't find anything different than v4.1 which is the latest and the last version of it. Maybe older version would work better, who knows. So, if some one have other version than v4.1, drop the link please.

    About changing RAM latency's via BIOS, I did not find any BIOS version (nor official nor moded) which would offers RAM timing option for my lop so far. Also I am not familiar with flashing process and I heard that chances are high to brick laptop if it's done incorrectly or some errors occur in BIOS it self. So, BIOS changing is very last thing on the list even if such, with RAM options exits somewhere.
     
  2. StormJumper

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    Have you check to see if your bios can change it? RAM are set and only can be OC through the UEFI BIOS this will give you more stable control. BIOS changes will not brick unless you go so far OC that it kills everything not just the RAM.
     
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  3. Vyga

    Vyga Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes I did checked BIOS menus which are currently in my lop, and in moded/newest BIOS's that I could find via BIOS emulator - none of them have option to change RAM latency ( only OC memory frequency via moded bios, but I already can do this with setfsb, so no real reason to even consider risking installing moded bios). UEFI, to my knowledge, doesn't exit for 5739g- it's quite old laptop.
     
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    Then your only option is to find the RAM that matches the speed your looking for then. Did you try that as well?
     
  5. Vyga

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    There are no ram stick which would work only on 1 latency/frequency. For example, in my lop there are now 2x DDR3-1600 11-11-11-28 sticks, yet my MB runs them at 1066 7-7-7-19 not at 1600 11-11-11-28. If i would buy ram sticks with 1333 9-9-9-24 (setting which I want to be ran while OC is applied) it would simply downclock to 1066 7-7-7-19 again.

    Back to software searches, I stumbled on some that can rewrite SPD which looks kinda promising, but one-Thaiphoon burner is paid for fully working version and as I am not sure if SPD changing would work at all I don't wanna pay 50$ to find out. Other is free- SPDtool- it's outdated and reads wrong values on DDR3, but HEX is the same as in Thaiphoon, so if I figure out how to edit HEX correctly it might work as SPDtool still can read/write SPD in HEX correctly.
     
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