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Hi guys. I have a gigabyte aorus x370 board (gaming k5) with corsair vengeance led 3200mhz. With the last bios update I was finally able to push the ram speeds manually to 3200. I do this in bios just by setting  the memory clock speeds up. I also have the ez overclock tuner and the xmp profile but never use neither one . If I enable the ez oc tuner to the 3200 setting or the xmp profile is the same as changing the speed like I do? Or do I get best performance on either one of those? 

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I dont know how EZ (dumb) OC tuner works, but XMP will give you tighter memory timings than if you just raise the frequency to 3200MHz and do nothing else. This means higher performance and chance of not booting up properly.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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Are you setting the RAM voltage manually to what it's specs are when enabling XMP? If not try that. 

Primary Rig:

CPU: AMD 7800X3D @ Stock PBO - Mobo: Gigabyte X670E AORUS Master

2 x 48GB G.Skill Trident Z Royal 6400MHz CL32 1.35V @ 6200MHz CL28-37-32-30 1.5V (still tuning)

CPU Cooler: EK AIO that will be being replaced when I get the chance - PSU: eVGA P2 1200W

GPU: Gigabyte RTX 4090 Gaming OC @ either 2595MHz @ 900mV or 2970MHz @ 1070mV

Case: Thermaltake View 91 - SSDs/HDDs: 1 Samsung 980 Pro 2TB, 2 990 Pro 2TB M.2s, 1 990 Pro 4TB M.2, 1 TeamGroup Cardea Z440 2TB M.2, 1 Seagate EXO X10 10TB HDD

Monitor: Samsung Odyssey G9 49" Super-Ultrawide 240Hz Monitor

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No. But even at auto if it isn't working at the top speed thats due to board compatibility right? Altought with the last bios update I'm now able to run it at 3133mhz it seems, as before it was at 3000. Need to use it more to see tough. Next time I enable xmp I will take a look at the voltages. It's taking alot of time and bios upgrades to get to the actual speed of it but I'm getting there. 

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17 minutes ago, VerVistas said:

No. But even at auto if it isn't working at the top speed thats due to board compatibility right? Altought with the last bios update I'm now able to run it at 3133mhz it seems, as before it was at 3000. Need to use it more to see tough. Next time I enable xmp I will take a look at the voltages. It's taking alot of time and bios upgrades to get to the actual speed of it but I'm getting there. 

That does sound like either a compatibility issue or the RAM itself is faulty. I've tested 2 kits of RAM in my system and both of them were literally plug and play, XMP enabled and that's all I had to do. One of the two kits didn't like OCing or tighter timings very much, but that was also a 2x16GB kit so it probably needed more voltage than the kit that's in my system by default. 

 

Don't be afraid to feed them a bit more voltage, spec on most sticks is 1.2-1.35V but a lot of people run up to 1.5V daily use and don't have any issues with 24/7 stability. I'm running 1.4V on mine, but I'm also at 4000MHz CL17 on a kit that's 3600MHz CL16 stock. 

Primary Rig:

CPU: AMD 7800X3D @ Stock PBO - Mobo: Gigabyte X670E AORUS Master

2 x 48GB G.Skill Trident Z Royal 6400MHz CL32 1.35V @ 6200MHz CL28-37-32-30 1.5V (still tuning)

CPU Cooler: EK AIO that will be being replaced when I get the chance - PSU: eVGA P2 1200W

GPU: Gigabyte RTX 4090 Gaming OC @ either 2595MHz @ 900mV or 2970MHz @ 1070mV

Case: Thermaltake View 91 - SSDs/HDDs: 1 Samsung 980 Pro 2TB, 2 990 Pro 2TB M.2s, 1 990 Pro 4TB M.2, 1 TeamGroup Cardea Z440 2TB M.2, 1 Seagate EXO X10 10TB HDD

Monitor: Samsung Odyssey G9 49" Super-Ultrawide 240Hz Monitor

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The xmp gets the speed to 3200 and raises the voltage to 1.35v. But it's not stable. I have 2x8gb sticks and since i've bought it I wasn't able to get it to 3200. But at the time it was due to compatibility. Once in every 2-3 bios updates launch, I update mine and trie to raise the speeds. With the latest one I'm now running at 3133 so eventually I think ill get to 3200 stable at stock. After that I may trie to OC. 

Do you really think It could be faulty? If yes They're still on warranty until june. 

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