Quote Originally Posted by 'zanthor',index.php?page=Thread&postID=48881#post4 8881
Bios settings on modern machines pretty much set themselves, it's come a long ways in the past 5 years... software, the worst you'll have to deal with is installing a few drivers.
Uh, I beg to differ. Most modern motherboards set default timings and voltages that are supposed to work within the basic JEDEC standards but all combinations are not correct. I just went through this with Crucial and Gigabyte. On my board, the defaults set my Crucial up as 5-5-5-18, 1.8v, where the specs for mine are 5-5-5-15, 2.0v. Without the correct settings, you may still see data errors, even if they're rare. The short version is that you need to educate yourself on what the correct timings and voltages are supposed to be per the manufacturer and then verify that your system is setting them correctly. The major memory manufacturers have either datasheets that state the specs and/or memory configurators that tell you if your motherboard is recommended for use with the selected memory models.