Overclocking memory on Asus Sabertooth Z77 with i7-2600k

[arkashiks]

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!

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

I know one if not many will quote me on this, but i stand by the fact that faster RAM will result in 1~2% improvement in FPS at most.

[auraofjason]

1 hour ago, LawrenceBarnes2013 said:

I know one if not many will quote me on this, but i stand by the fact that faster RAM will result in 1~2% improvement in FPS at most.

It depends on the game. Some will be 1-2%, some will be 20%+.

 

Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-intel-kaby-lake-core-i7-7700k-review

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

6 minutes ago, auraofjason said:

It depends on the game. Some will be 1-2%, some will be 20%+.

 

 

Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-intel-kaby-lake-core-i7-7700k-review

I know but as you can see, you do get up to 15% improuvement in the 120FPS range, Going from 120 to a 130 FPS won't make a difference, lovely to see that improvement it the top left corner but it doesn't translate into real benefit to your overall experience.

[auraofjason]

12 minutes ago, LawrenceBarnes2013 said:

I know but as you can see, you do get up to 15% improuvement in the 120FPS range, Going from 120 to a 130 FPS won't make a difference, lovely to see that improvement it the top left corner but it doesn't translate into real benefit to your overall experience.

It does for some people like me since I have a 165hz 1440p monitor 

 

If you're running 1080p/60hz then it probably won't matter much.

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

2 minutes ago, auraofjason said:

It does for some people like me since I have a 165hz 1440p monitor 

 

If you're running 1080p/60hz then it probably won't matter much.

True.

[arkashiks]

I actually have 144Hz monitor and i play in 1440p))

 

I have managed to keep RAM voltage to 1.35V and change from 1600 to 1866 by increasing timers a bit. So far, here is the result from AIDA64:

 

before

 

after

 

I have also tried to raise voltage to 1.5V and set memory to 2133, but for some reason it doesn't boot, even when timers where increased. Not sure how to troubleshoot that. According to internet, my memory is capable to work on that frequency with 1.5V.