Hello there,
I recently built a new system and switched over from Intel to Ryzen 3900X. I have some Ballistics RAM that is rated up to 4000MHz. Since I don't have a ton of time these days, I went for the lazy solution and set the DOCP to 4000MHz. However, I keep seeing info online stating that 3600MHz and 1800 for the FCLK setting leads to higher stability and potentially higher FPS. My question is whether or not I should drop my RAM down to 3600MHz in order to maximize my performance gains (I haven't benched trying both settings, so that will happen at some point). Is DOCP at 4000MHz the better setting to keep without me touching anything else, or is it just a number that looks good but is costing me frames? Should I touch anything else beyond just the DOCP setting for a quick and clean solution? Eventually I'd like to get down and dirty and learn how to overclock on this motherboard to mess with RAM timings and what not, but grad school keeps me busy . My rig's purpose is 4K to 1440p gaming (depending on whether I'm projecting to my monitor or to my TV through my receiver through my RTX 3090), so just trying to make sure I'm not hindering performance where possible.
Thanks in advance for any insights.