Hello LTT community,
First of all, sorry for my bad English (it is not native for me) and my apologies if similar topics were already discussed before.
Few months ago I have decided to bring my old gaming rig to new life and after viewing dozen of videos and reading several articles, I decided not to go with purchase of new platform, but only do upgrade of my graphics card.
My old gaming rig:
Core i7-2600k @stock
ASUS Sabertooth Z77
Crucial 16GB KIT DDR3 1600MHz CL9 Ballistix Sport (CR306f) (2x8)
Gainward GTX680
After researching dozen of articles, I did overclock my processor to 4.4GHz @1.335V. I wasn't very lucky with chip, to reach stable 4.5GHz I had to use 1.550V, so I've decided to keep it at 4.4GHz @1.335V, and temps now are not reaching 80C under constant full load. In addition to this, I did replaced my old graphics card with recently released Gigabyte GTX1070 Xtreme Gaming edition (overclocked to 2107Mhz) and managed to get ROG Swift PG278Q monitor (don't ask, I was just very lucky to get it very cheap). I'm pretty fine playing modern games at 1440p with high/ultra settings, even when FPS falls under 60 G-Sync does his job very good.
Question I'm trying to address is about my RAM. Currently it works at 1600MHz which was auto-configured by XMP. I found many articles in internet about this, in some people claims that overclocking RAM have significant improvement over gaming experience, in others is stated that there will be no difference.
Guys, would you please guide me, does it make sense for me to overclock my RAM to 2133MHz and if so, would you please guide me how to do it with my MB and RAM?
Many thanks!