HyperX Savage 1600 overclocking

[Naijin]

I currently have 16GB of HyperX Savage 1600MHz memory in my system. I have 4x4GB that I tried to overclock. Currently it is running at 2400MHz without getting hot to the touch, memtest86+ ran just fine without errors and the voltage is still at stock 1.5v. Latencies are at 14-14-14-40, and benchmarks prove it to be reasonably faster than at 1600MHz. Am I just lucky that it can go that high? A friend of mine had a corsair vengeance 1600 that could only run 2000 with much higher voltage than stock and 2133 even proved to be unstable.

[bpw87]

I currently have 16GB of HyperX Savage 1600MHz memory in my system. I have 4x4GB that I tried to overclock. Currently it is running at 2400MHz without getting hot to the touch, memtest86+ ran just fine without errors and the voltage is still at stock 1.5v. Latencies are at 14-14-14-40, and benchmarks prove it to be reasonably faster than at 1600MHz. Am I just lucky that it can go that high? A friend of mine had a corsair vengeance 1600 that could only run 2000 with much higher voltage than stock and 2133 even proved to be unstable.

What sort of tasks or work do you do with your PC to make you OC your RAM? If you do a lot of rendering or similar things or have an APU I can see the benefit.

 

CL14 is pretty high so I'm guessing that helps a lot with your stability and stock voltages. I'm not sure if you are lucky but when I tried to OC my brothers RAM just for fun I couldn't get 2133 without bumping up voltage and the CL but then again I only tried for a short time with nothing close to stable.

 

Why didn't you get higher MHz RAM from the beginning?

[Naijin]

What sort of tasks or work do you do with your PC to make you OC your RAM? If you do a lot of rendering or similar things or have an APU I can see the benefit.

 

CL14 is pretty high so I'm guessing that helps a lot with your stability and stock voltages. I'm not sure if you are lucky but when I tried to OC my brothers RAM just for fun I couldn't get 2133 without bumping up voltage and the CL but then again I only tried for a short time with nothing close to stable.

 

Why didn't you get higher MHz RAM from the beginning?

I'm just gaming on this pc, and some video editing from time to time, so higher clocked memory wouldn't make a noticeable difference. However, I did notice lower latency timings using the Passmark benchmark for memory.

 

[bpw87]

I'm just gaming on this pc, and some video editing from time to time, so higher clocked memory wouldn't make a noticeable difference. However, I did notice lower latency timings using the Passmark benchmark for memory.

The difference in the latency would never show any real world decreases in input lag, though you would nearly be doubling your original RAM CL I wouldn't see this having any issues and only positives for when you do do video editing. Seeing it's at stock voltage you won't be hurting anything as well so go for gold.

 

You don't see people OCing their RAM much these days so I was just a bit curious as to why. But in the end it's each to their own

[Sakkura]

CL14 at 2400 is equivalent to CL9.3 at 1600. I would probably try to hit CL12 or 11 at 2133.

[bpw87]

My Gskill 2133MHz is 9-11-11-24 at 1.65v and the volts are too high for me. Looking back now I wish would have gotten a kit that used 1.5v