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Hello, can i mix different size ram kits of the same brand togehter? 2x 8gb 3200 mhz cl16 with 2x 16gb 3200 mhz cl16 both Corsair Vengeance LPX LP black DDR4-3200 DIMM CL16 Dual Kit…. both have same voltage and all that… but heres the thing im not sure about trpd, trp, tras differ… 8gig kit has trcd18, trp18, tras 36 16gig kit has trcd20, trp20, tras38. Can i mix them without hesitation or shall i get rid of one kit?

Hi! I finished my build, and I might have shot myself in the leg. Note, that I am not an expert on the topic by any means, I just wanted to build a system which is futureproof, reliable workstation for modeling and bioinformatics, as well as a good gamestation. Here is my setup: -ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme Alpha -AMD Threadripper 3970x -2xMSI RTX 3090 Suprim X -G.Skill 256GB (8x32GB) kit 3600 Now, I just realised that the Threadripper 3970x officially maxes out at 3200Mhz memory speed, and only the 3990x supports 3600Mhz. Since I purchased the 3600Mhz kit, I am affraid I might have lost performance, since the CL numbers are as follows: 3200 kit: CL16-18-18-38 3600 kit: CL18-22-22-42 After doing the math, I realized that even after I set the RAM to 3200Mhz, I'll have longer latency due to the larger CL numbers, compared to if I have gone with the 3200Mhz kit. My question is: is there any way to maximize my performance, decreasing latency? Either by setting the CL numbers lower, or running the RAM at 3600Mhz? Is it possible to tune these sticks to get the same performance or better, as if I have gone with the 3200 kit? Anything like the infinity fabric or using the DRAM calculator? Thank you very much in advance!

Hey guys, first of all - I know there were threads about this problem already, on many forums, but most of them are either old or dead ends so I've no choice but to explain my problem in a new thread. Issue: I keep getting audio distortions - crackling, popping, etc. - after around 1-1,5h of using my soundbar (Sonos Ray) with my PC via optical cable (Aorus X570 Pro MOBO). I've managed to track down what's causing said problem, that being high DPC/ISR latencies - main culprits are: HDAudBus.sys, wdf0100.sys and dxgkrnl.sys Latency with those 3 tends to spike up to 10000, but it's slowly creeping up, it's not sudden - highest latency starts at ~150 (with average of ~10-50) and steadily increases over time to 1200 then spikes to 10000. The distortion seems to be happening only when I play a YouTube video for example, and is exaggerated when I move my cursor on said video. However, if the video plays in a separate tab and I have second one open with Google search for example, the distortion suddenly disappears. Same if a video is playing in the background and I'm on desktop. What I've tried: ~Updating all drivers, audio, chipset, GPU, etc. - no effect ~Updating Bios, twice with both Gigabyte recommended Bios version and the newest one - no effect ~Changing some Bios settings, including setting pcie from auto to Gen4 - no effect ~Changing power plan to high performance - no effect ~Changing various audio settings - no effect ~Using sfc /scannow, which fixed something, but unfortunately - no effect ~Only resetting my PC fixes the problem temporarily - turning the soundbar off/on does nothing, same with unplugging it ~During distortion changing source by streaming music from my phone provides clear sound, but switching back to PC as source the distortion is there again I've read that fTPM on Ryzen could lead to stutters, but I'm using W11 so I can't disable it. Also, May '22 Bios update supposedly was to fix that issues. It's not a speaker/soundbar related problem - it persisted when I connected Creative Stage V2 (3,5mm and USB connections), Samsung Q700B (optical) and now Sonos Ray (optical). However, I never had any problems with distortion, when I was using my old Fenda R50 (3,5mm connection) for 2+ years, even without latest audio drivers. Is there any way to fix this weird issue, besides reinstalling Windows? If that would even help... Should I consider getting internal sound card or something?

Man this issue is frustrating. It has been been happening for about a week now, it was completely fine beforehand. So I play COD with my mates in a Discord call, and their voices lag and the game lags terribly. Restarting router / PC resolves the issue temporarily, then it eventually happens again. I am connected wirelessly and ethernet is not possible right now. I have no issues when watching YouTube or anything. When I do a speed test, these are my results: Any suggestions?

Hey guys, recently I bought Sonos Ray for my office and after some time of listening to podcasts or music sound starts to get distorted, fuzzy and there's cracking sound of some kind. These problems are more pronounced when I move my mouse. This soundbar is connected via optical cable. There are no such problems when I stream music from my phone, moving my mouse doesn't make any difference in that case. So far only resetting my PC fixes the problem. I've had Creative Stage V2 before and I had exactly the same problem - distortion after some time of playing (but using 3,5mm and USB connections) and only resetting the PC fixed the problem. Switching my Sonos off doesn't change anything, only PC reset helps. Could this issue be MOBO related? I have Aorus X570 Pro. Should I buy dedicated sound card or something? Thanks in advance for all replies.

https://imgur.com/SPvjyOY Example:^ Is there some settings i could change on my rotuer to get rid of this? Im running a cable to a switch, that goes into my router. Its an Asus CD6 router, its pretty new and should be plenty for a houshold of 2 people.

I'm currently using a GT-AX11000 and have been mostly satisfied with it so far! The latency at my house has largely been solid for as long as i've been here. Occasionally servers in games would show ping being doubled what i'm used to, but a simple reset would always squash it back down. Just recently, I received an "Upgraded" modem from Spectrum, and immediately every server in every game has doubled or tripled, like it would on occasion. After a lot of live chats, a couple of techs coming out to my house, and factory resetting everything multiple times, the issues stays the same. The weird part though, is if I plug my computer straight to the modem, my ping is fine, hovering around 30ms in the servers I play in. Switch to router, immediately hits 90ms or more. I tried swapping my router for the same model to see if my particular unit was being problematic, but nothing. I've tried stock firmware, i've tried merlin. And for reference, I am connected over ethernet, never over wifi. Currently I'm on the most recent version of Merlin. Is there anything I can do? Some setting i'm missing, or something that can be done? I know a router adds slight latency but triple the ping of the modem feels insane to me. I'm new to networking, but i've followed everything I could find here to no avail. I'll happily offer any further information if necessary. Thank you in advance!

Hello LTT fam, long time lurker, first time poster. I've run into an issue that I've never experienced before across several custom builds through 10+ years that I hope you can help me with. I am experiencing occasional, and random, high interrupt latency on my 3975wx system. This causes issues for me trying to stream as it usually results in a quick network disconnect and can also show up as audio pops/clicks/dropouts. I have spent months testing various hardware configurations, bios settings, windows settings, everything I can think of. I cannot figure this out. I bought the "pro" version of LatencyMon which gives me access to its Tight Loop Latency test at HIGH_LEVEL_IRQL, measuring SMIs and CPU stalls. As far as I understand this test, this should be testing interrupt latency at a lower level than drivers, but I also have 10's of documented latency spikes using the non-pro version of LatencyMon as well. Here is one of the tight loop latency test results: https://pastebin.com/B1ytWE56 My current hardware is: 3975wx Asus Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE Wifi Corsair AX1600i EVGA FTW3 Ultra 3090ti 256 (8x32) gigs of Kingston ECC 3200 DDR4 (KSM32RD8/32HAR) I'm running the latest AMD chipset drivers, all the other latest drivers from Asus's support page for my mobo. I have tried replacing every single piece of hardware in my system to rule out a component failure. I've RMA'd the 3975wx, I've RMA'd the motherboard, I've tried a different PSU, I've tried different RAM, and I've tried a different graphics card. I've tried reinstalling windows fresh and I've tried a completely different NVMe drive. I will get latency spikes shown in that tight loop latency test I talked about when I have the networking cable unplugged, any and all other add-on cards removed, and as much software closed as I can. I'm running the 3975wx with C states, threading, and HW stream prefetchers disabled. If you have any ideas for me to try, I'd love to hear them. This is an incredibly expensive system that I would love to get working 100% for those tasty PCIe lanes. I've been documenting my journey over on the level1tech forum if you want to read the insanity that I've tried to track this down thus far. Again, any help would be appreciated. Thanks

In your eyes, I have a really old build, but it plays the games I want to play and doesn't have to do anything more. It's an ASUS P5QD with an overclocked X9650 and a GTX 960. I currently have 8 gigs of some cheap DDR2 and I am pretty sure my ram is the weakest point here. DDR2 is pretty slow being around 6.4 GB/s for most sticks. I could buy 16 gigs of DDR2-800 and allocate more ram to games, or I could buy 8 gigs of DDR2 1066 of a venerable brand, and overclock it to possibly reduce the bottleneck the DDR2 creates. I have searched the corners of the web and some of the shoddiest sites for ram sticks that have both of these characteristics. 4x4 GB of 1066 DDR2 seems like it was never created save for server ram. Just wondering which characteristic of the two is going to be better. Other than this, my system is well balanced, Gpu temps max at 75C and CPU temps max at 45C and both are doing close to the same amount of work. Please don't tell me that my build is old or that I need to upgrade. I know the specs are old and I really don't care. It plays my favorite games at 1080p 60 and that's all I need. Some better ram will let me run slightly higher settings and lower the I/O usage.

Is there a difference between HDMI ports on a monitor? There are 2 HDMI ports on my monitor and is there a difference with latency or the resolution or refresh rate the monitor can handle? I have no idea about this kinda stuff so any help is greatly appreciated. I only wonder because my monitor is a 75hz 2560p x 1440p monitor and using the current HDMI port I have it plugged into it feels “rough” at 75hz with the native resolution. I either have to have it at 2560 x 1440 at 70hz or 1920 x 1080 at 75 hz for it to feel smooth. Any help is appreciated.

About a week ago, I noticed short bursts of static in DCS, along with occasional hard crashes (sometimes application freeze, sometimes system restart). It seemed to improve when I had less open in the background (closing chrome/discord). It later occurred in other games and applications. Sometimes mouse inputs would be registered late. I had updated my chipset drivers (I don't remember whether I did so before or after I noticed the artfacting), and then updated motherboard audio drivers, as well as updating steelseries software. I used latencymon to check and surely enough, Highest measured interrupt to process latency was reaching 2000-3000 microseconds. Reported ISR and DPC execution time also reported high values and showed dxgkrnl.sys and nvlddmkm.sys as the highest execution time. So I updated graphics drivers, using clean install and only installing the two essential drivers. USB C, PhysX, and Audio drivers were not installed. That did not help. I tried modifying my ram OC, disabling PBO, and even resetting the ram to 2133Mhz. Nothing did anything except resetting ram to 2133, which seemed to lower the ISR and DPC execution times greatly. But the interrupts to process latency was still 2500 or so. I tried changing the power plan in control panel to ryzen high performance, and applied my ram oc again, along with enabling PBO. It had the same effect as resetting the ram OC. I used malwarebytes to make sure there isn't malware either. Relevant system specs: Ryzen 7 3700X, PBO 300 230 230 x5 Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite, bios is version F10, the oldest which had AGESA 1.0.0.4B. I haven't bothered to update since then since F11 and F12 reportedly only improve PCIe device and memory compatibility. Patriot Viper Steel 4400C19, tightened down to 3733 14-15-15-30-48-1T 1.47V GDM enabled, tRFC 298 EVGA RTX 2070 XC Gaming, +131Mhz core, +915Mhz Mem EVGA G3 650W Windows 10 Home Arctis 7 headset Corsair K68 Keyboard Logitech M510 mouse Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick At this point I'm running out of ideas, so any help is appreciated. If you need any log files or any more information I will try my best to provide it.

my question is that is it better to have lower latencies? if so then why? and is this applicable to all versions from ddr to ddr4? i would also like to know that which setting could prove to be beneficial in gaming and which one could be better for professional tasks(servers,benchmarks and shit). any help would be appreciated........

Recently, I have been having issues with latency and sometimes high packet loss. AI have been having these issues for over 3 weeks, but I simply can't find the cause. The only solution I found is weirdly Speedify, which solves the issue (??).

Hello! It seems like I was experiencing the same issues a lot of people on these internet forums were experiencing. Over the past two weeks I've scoured the forums of LTT and Tom's Hardware for tips and tricks of how to get rig of pesky lag spikes, frame dips, or just overall underperformance of my expensive PC. Granted these are in no way a guarantee to fix your issue but it's a good place to start and I feel like it would be nice to have a list of things to try that might fix your particular issue instead of searching far and wide like I did. If you have any tips or trick please comment below and I will add it to my list (and credit you of course). Before I start, I want to say I am by no means an expert in this field and have only been working in IT for a little over 2 years. If anyone would like to correct me I encourage you to do so, I am always willing to learn and be challenged on my knowledge, thank you! I will start with what I think solved my particular issue: Disabling NVIDIA Overlay in games. I should have known something was off with it before; it would make my mouse extremely lagging after games when it would pop up with my replays and make it almost impossible to close. I might try to do a fresh install of GeForce Experience and see if that fixes that issue, but for now it works a lot better and doesn't seem to have large spike of FPS drops in game as much. BIOS Update. This is one people commonly suggest. This was a problem many years ago I had when I was much less technologically inclined than I am today. I had never updated my BIOS after I built my system for a whole year after I made it. I had never owned a gaming computer before so I just thought random frame drops in Rocket League were normal. Along with several other issues I had, I felt pretty dumb after I fixed it. Regardless, I was happier with my setup. Chipset drivers. I had never updated my chipset drivers either. My AMD 2700x seemed like it was slightly underperforming out of box and wasn't sure why. I did a User Benchmark before and after and the results were slightly better. I am not sure if this had anything to do with remedying my stuttering or not since this was done alongside me disabling NVIDIA overlay. Graphics card drivers. This might seem like an obvious one to a lot of you guys but as a noobie trying to troubleshoot back in the day, I knew very little and this definitely was forgotten a few times until I wondered to myself why my games were sucking more than usual. Windows OS corrupt files. I have seen a few instances of corrupt operating system files causing performance decreases in games, or even just general weird bugs in windows. A few of my games would randomly crash and one of my friends suggested checking my system files. You can run a command through command prompt called sfc /scannow. This has pulled corrupt windows files on a few occasions for me and has fixed them. You will have to run command prompt by searching for it in windows search bar, right click on it and hit run as administrator, type the command above and it should take about 5 minutes or so. Alternatively, you can go to your file explorer and check all your drives independently. Go to "This PC," right click on the drive you want, click on the tools tab, then click the "Check" option under "Error Checking." Any drive that does not contain the OS Windows will tell you that it doesn't need to check it but it honestly doesn't hurt. Windows "Game Mode" This might be a big one. I might be wrong, but I think this is set to on by default. According to Techspot, this is a pretty substantial one and could be your golden ticket to better FPS... who knows? Try disabling by searching for Game Mode in Windows search bar. HAGS or Hardware accelerated GPU Scheduling This setting can also be found on the same page as "Game Mode." This setting may or may not help but it seems to be on a case by case basis. It's a newer feature in the NVIDIA driver update. From what I have read online It may help gaming performance in CPU bound situations. Windows 10 Power Plan This one might be less about fixing stuttering and more about getting better performance. Under "Power Options" you can change your systems power options. Go to your systems "Power and Sleep" settings and on the right side click "Additional power settings." Choose "Ultimate Performance." (would not recommend if on a gaming laptop) Disabling Dynamic Tick A number of user's have been helped by this one and it seems generally safe bet to help with stuttering frame rates. Right-click the Start menu and select Command Prompt (Admin). First, enter bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes and press Enter. Then input bcdedit /set useplatformclock true in the Command Prompt, and press the Enter key. Thereafter, enter bcdedit /set tscsyncpolicy Enhanced in the Prompt and press Enter. Close the Command Prompt window and restart the system.

Hey guys I'm about to add some ram!, and for some reason I can't remember (I should know this) or find by google it if I can add "2x8gb tridentz rgb 3600mhz cas19" to a b450 tomahawk max with "2x8gb tridentz neo 3600mhz cas16" ... it's suppose to work 2 dimms with cas19 and 2 with cas16 or not?? kind of embarasing that I don't remember how this works ...

So, I got a new router about a month ago and I initially had some really high latency spikes, but figured out that it was because the extender I was using to connect my computer to the router did not support ac wifi. I got one of those cheap usb dongles to replace it and it has been working fine for a few weeks now, but all of a sudden I have been getting really bad lag spikes while playing CS:GO and I pinged my router first to make sure it was not a problem between the router and the usb dongle. It turned out that my computer would just occasionally lose contact with the router. It would gain connectivity the next time it got pinged and the latency would be high for just this ping but then it would go back to normal after that. Please help!

I'm undecided whether to buy which 16GB RAM Kit. I'm going to pair it with an Ryzen 3600 or 3300x. The options are: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory CAS Latency 16, Timings 16-18-18-36 69,90€ ~ 76,65$ or G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory CAS Latency 19, Timings 19-20-20-40 71.90€ ~ 78,84$ Both are the cheapest RAM Kits at their Speeds in Germany. Which should i choose and why? From looking it up I only found some people saying that you should first look at the speed and then at the CAS-Latency when comparing kits of the same speeds. But that seems too generalized for me. Thank you in advance.

hey so i have recently gotten my first desktop and i go to play some games and bam! the games are super laggy and damn near impossible to play so i go onto speedtest.net and check my ping and speeds and i have all around great numbers, so i turn on the latency tracker in game and i will go from 32ms to 1000+ms, this is consistent across all games and i even did some things in command prompt to see packet loss and i get 100% drop rate. I use a wired connection and am baffled at what to do next, any ideas? (i know this video is super low quality but here are some examples of the lag https://youtu.be/5aWR84FF1S4 )

A while back I got a pair of Sony WH-1000X M3's and I've been really into the sound quality. Naturally I've been wondering if I can somehow turn them into my main gaming headset. The only problem being that sometimes the latency on the sound drags a full second behind the visuals. Is there some sort of adapter or dongle I can get to speed up the audio transmission? I'm looking to play mostly on PC, but it would be a cool little bonus to be able to get this working on PS4 and Xbox.

While playing any game or movie, my frames gets freezes for while with creepy audio freeze. I'm unable to solve the problem. i followed many youtube tuts by putting registry for HIPM/DIPM AHCI Link power management and making it active. still it doesn't work. Please help. This issue occurs every 45min to 1.30hr. Thank you in advance.

I need help with choosing the right ram kit for my new gaming rig. I want 2 sticks of 8gb but I don't know what latency and mhz I need to go for. Please help!!! PS: my cpu is a ryzen 5 3600

So recently from last couple of days i have been experiencing very high ping 150-300ms in most games i play, previously it used to be around 10-60ms depending on time of day. My neighbor has connection from same isp and same plan, but he has no issues, he is getting great results in ping. I have a 100 mbps connection, connected via ethernet, not downloading anything. I dont have much knowledge of networking, i did a bit search and tried tracert 8.8.8.8 command, heres the result attached, it is bad but what is the solution? Please help

Hello there, I have the following issue with a ram upgrade: I have the following pc: HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop 690-0017ns, and in terms of RAM this machine has Dual Channel (16gb cl19 2166Mhz), and I did the upgrade to the Corsair 32gb cl16 3200mhz. When installed in my motherboard, they run at 2133mhz, and because it is HP, there is NOWAY to find any ram settings in the BIOS neither the XMP Intel. I would like to find any solution that would allowd me at least (if I cannot enable XMP porfile) to let the at the default speed (2666Mhz, wich is the speed of the ram that was in my machine from the factory). Thanks.

Hello! A few weeks ago I started experiencing high ping spikes that last anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours. I currently have a Eero Mesh Router system with three pucks placed around the house. Normally my ping to games such as League of Legends or Rocket League sits at around 20-40ms, but when it spikes it sits at 280-340ms. I have Spectrum internet and have not changed ISPs recently. I built my own PC a few months ago and have no problems with the internet connection until now. I am using a usb wifi adapter because ethernet is not an option right now with where the router is located, however I was still getting very little latency before this started happening, so I do not believe this to be the problem. Another thing to note is that when I am experiencing high latency my download and upload speeds are not affected at all. I typically get about 100mb download and 11 mb upload and these do not change when my ping spikes to 300. I have done lots a research and have tried dozens of different solutions from different online videos, however my problem has continued to persist. I do not believe the latency is caused by my hardware, as when I ping my router from my PC using the command prompt window during a ping spike, it remains very low at about 6ms. The latency to Spectrum's WAN also stays very low at about 5ms during these ping spikes. Other PCs and phones within the house are experiencing this same issue, no matter how close they are to the router, so it is not just my PC having issues. One of the solutions I found online was to run a tracert in the command prompt, and when I do the hop to the router is fine, the second one times out (which I read is normal, like a safety feature, and not actually a reflection of my internet connection), and then the third line jumps up to 300 ms latency. Another factor that I know could cause high latency is using up all the bandwidth, which could easily happen during the day as my family has lots of devices on the network. However, during the day I sometimes have low latency for a few hours the high latency for a few hours, but then late at night when I am the only one up the high latency will still occur. This makes me think the problem is not on my side of the network, but rather on Spectrums side of things, but I have no idea how to proceed from here. Overall the latency feels completely random and it has left me extremely confused on what is going wrong. Let me know if you have any other questions, any suggestions or insight would be extremely helpful! Thanks in advance!

Hey guys, I know at this point it there is probably very little difference between the modules. One has tighter timings at the cost of 200 Mhz. I tried to find some benchmarks / scaling to see if their was a difference but came up short. They both cost the same amount from the retailer I am buying from. Here is the 3000 module https://www.pccasegear.com/products/37870/g-skill-trident-z-rgb-f4-3000c15d-16gtzr-16gb-2x8gb-ddr4 Here is the 3200 https://www.pccasegear.com/products/37884/g-skill-trident-z-rgb-f4-3200c16d-16gtzr-16gb-2x8gb-ddr4 down the bottom in the spec is a picture with the timings. cheers.