http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bios-a-z,1200-11.html toms has good guides on it. http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Understanding-RAM-Timings/26/1 Its really as easy as navigating the bios to the memory section and changing the timing settings to manual mode. Then adjust to match the setting for the ram. These numbers are your major timings you are concerned with the others use either default values or automatic settings: 10-11-10-30 which break down to CAS 10, rRCD(RAS to CAS) 11, tRP 10, tRAS 30 your ram should also be 1T memory if you see a setting for it. -Andy On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:48 PM, James wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail.com> writes: > > > > intel introduced an extension for spd information. The ram should work > > just fine. Intel motherboards might or might not make use of the > > additional information. so might or might not amd boards. And no, there > > won't be any risk. DDR3 is DDR3. > > > > > Nice to know about adjusting the timings/voltages. > Any suggested further docs or resources on this > is of keen interest to me. Maybe an example? > > I never had to adjust timings/voltages before. Then again, > I need to poke around the Gigabyte BIOS > as these are my first Gigabyte mobos. Very advance > > Thanks to all responders. I'll give it a go and post > back if there is any further issues. > > James > > > > >