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this is going to be a quick guide on how to install memory I realize I might have sort of poked fun at anyone who doesn't know how to install memory in one of my recent videos and for that I feel terribly bad but yeah this is going to just be a basic guide so step one it's going to be ground yourself out touching a plugged in power supply just like that step two you can see I've already installed two of this triple channel kit so two of the modules but I'm going to go ahead and install the third module now this is soos board this is the rampage 3 extreme is a little bit different from most motherboards because on the one side these are not proper clips and on the other side they are proper clips so what you do is you just push this side in okay make sure it's in the right spot push this side in okay and then you push down the other side of the module until the clip goes in now if you had clips on both sides then you'd actually push it in evenly and then the clips would go on both sides is fairly straightforward now that was it for the physical installation but this is the part that some people actually don't know about if you install new memory in your system and boot it up most motherboards are going to default to a safe setting rather than the actual capabilities of the RAM modules you installed so this motherboard is I just put in to our peretta 2 6 gigs of ddr3 1600 megahertz okay and so 1600 megahertz is the speed and it also runs at C 9 timings okay overclocking failed please enter setup blah blah blah press f12 run setup that's what I want to do so you can see right here it is not running at 1600 megahertz right off the bat we see that so the first thing we're going to change is the DRAM frequency and yeah I press the right button so we're going to set that to 1600 megahertz select ok to use the current DRAM voltage something automatically oh ok select cancel to increase the DRAM voltage automatically if your dims require high voltage well we're gonna do it we're not going to do it automatically we're going to do it manually and this is something that you may not be able to tell by looking at the modules or even by looking at the packaging see on these all we can see here is a part number so with that you can throw the part number on the kingston website and then find out exactly what all the settings are you need for your rent so there's the frequency which is 1600 we've already set that then there's the latencies and usually for even for an intermediate to advanced user you're only going to set for Layton sees and the most important one for performance is the CL or cast latency so here we've got that set and then the last one is the voltage we're going to do the voltage next here so this Ram is rated at one point six five volts just like most ddr3 kits for core i5 and core i7 because it's not recommended to use a higher voltage than that for these tips due to the integrated memory controller so I'm actually going to go touch lower most quality Ram is going to run at its rated speed even with a little bit less voltage anyway but that's one of the ways to be able to talk okay here these are all the different ways to be able to tell a quality kit from a lower quality kit frequency higher frequency is good latency lower latency is good and voltage lower voltage is good so the ideal memory kit would run at the fastest frequency with the lowest latency and the lowest voltage obviously like anything in computers it's always a bit of a trade-off but this is a fairly mainstream kit and let me just see if there's anything that we can do to get a little bit further into this Ram configuration this is a very very performance oriented board so I'm sure I'm going to find something here I might be under advanced CPU confuse you find the RAM settings under CPU these days because it is running off the integrated controller on the CPU it might just be a matter of setting oh cool XMP modules are XMP profiles this is another thing I wanted to talk about this is a way for your RAM to have a little setting on it that tells your motherboard what all of its default settings are so here you see 1600 megahertz nine nine nine twenty seven that's the latency one end so that's like kind of like the old 1 T 2 T timing one is better and then you've got one point 6 5 volts to one point 4 volts there you go look at that so xnp is a pretty cool thing EP p is the nvidia equivalent and then the other one is cpu rog and then manual so if we go to manual then I'm guessing it will actually let me set something other than the DRAM frequency here's getting that warning again memory configuration timing control here we go so here you can see it's already set to almost the right things but I can actually set the latency as myself so you can either go in and set the all the frequency latency and voltage yourself or you can 27 was actually what it was rated for and then let me just see if I can find the ttttt ah yes 1 and here we go so now it is set manually to what it's supposed to be or if you want to make life easy for yourself you can just go in and by oops oh I just almost set my CPU voltage 1.65 bad bad very bad 1.65 there we go or you can just use an XMPP profile to do it for you so I'm just going to reboot and show you that now we have not only installed our RAM but we have also configured it to work properly my next guide will probably be more like our RAM overclocking and how to do that because it's it's actually quite simple you just turn the frequency up turn the timings down and turn the voltage up it's basically like CPU overclocking more frequency more volts and then profit so here you go everything is going to be set the way it's supposed to be and wasn't that fun thanks for checking out my video blog and my guide on installing and configuring your new memory modules and a big thanks to Kingston for providing this Ram don't forget that if you are subscribed and you leave a comment under my unboxing of this kingston 6 gig kit then you can be qualified to win it