Ram at slower speeds

[RitualWOW]

hello i just recently build a new pc and i went into the bios and my ram speed was running at 2400 the ram i have says 3200mhz how do i change that and what is xmp?

my pc specs are

Ryzen 5 1600af 

Asrock B450m r4.0

Team TForce TUF 3200 8x2

450w evga psu

1050 ti evga

[svmlegacy]

2 minutes ago, RitualWOW said:

what is xmp?

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xmp

 

2400 MT/s is likely the default speed for this platform. The RAM is capable of 3200 MT/s if you select the proper XMP profile, if you want to. No need to worry, your system is working normally.

[RitualWOW]

42 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xmp

 

2400 MT/s is likely the default speed for this platform. The RAM is capable of 3200 MT/s if you select the proper XMP profile, if you want to. No need to worry, your system is working normally.

okay thats good to know that i didnt mess anything but if i turn it to 3200 will i get better performance? doesnt Ryzen like faster memory?

[svmlegacy]

5 minutes ago, RitualWOW said:

okay thats good to know that i didnt mess anything but if i turn it to 3200 will i get better performance? doesnt Ryzen like faster memory?

Maybe. It depends on what you're doing. If you're gaming and GPU limited, it might not help any. Ryzen CPU's do perform better with higher memory speeds, up to a point.

 

tl;dr

Try it and find out?

[rorythedawg]

11 minutes ago, RitualWOW said:

okay thats good to know that i didnt mess anything but if i turn it to 3200 will i get better performance? doesnt Ryzen like faster memory?

Yes but you are not going to see any performance uplift going form 2400mhz to 3200mhz on a 1600, probably not even noticeable in cinebench tbh. You'll get much more benefit out of dual or quad channel memory configuration than higher clock speeds on the kits, also becasue the xmp profile for 3200 probably increases the timing a bit too which will effectively be negating any performance uplift form the 2400mhz with (potentially) tighter timings. 

 

All in all I wouldn't even think about messing with it. Unless you enjoy OCing and stuff its just a waste of time for this setup. 

[-rascal-]

18 minutes ago, RitualWOW said:

okay thats good to know that i didnt mess anything but if i turn it to 3200 will i get better performance? doesnt Ryzen like faster memory?

 

You can't simply JUST chance the DRAM frequency to DDR4-3200.

You would want to correct the memory timings/latency, and the DRAM voltage as well -- to match what is printed on the RAM sticks.

Or...you can enable X.M.P. and it will set all those automatically for you...

 

Under 'OC Tweaker' tab in the UEFI BIOS...

[RitualWOW]

1 hour ago, -rascal- said:

 

You can't simply JUST chance the DRAM frequency to DDR4-3200.

You would want to correct the memory timings/latency, and the DRAM voltage as well -- to match what is printed on the RAM sticks.

Or...you can enable X.M.P. and it will set all those automatically for you...

 

Under 'OC Tweaker' tab in the UEFI BIOS...

i like to go with the xmp route do i do the xmp 2.0 profile? and  when i do that do i select the dram frequency to 3200?

[RitualWOW]

1 hour ago, rorythedawg said:

Yes but you are not going to see any performance uplift going form 2400mhz to 3200mhz on a 1600, probably not even noticeable in cinebench tbh. You'll get much more benefit out of dual or quad channel memory configuration than higher clock speeds on the kits, also becasue the xmp profile for 3200 probably increases the timing a bit too which will effectively be negating any performance uplift form the 2400mhz with (potentially) tighter timings. 

 

All in all I wouldn't even think about messing with it. Unless you enjoy OCing and stuff its just a waste of time for this setup. 

its a AF version of the 1600 its basically the 2600 but with the 1600 name

 

[-rascal-]

1 hour ago, RitualWOW said:

i like to go with the xmp route do i do the xmp 2.0 profile? and  when i do that do i select the dram frequency to 3200?

Yes, XMP 2.0 profile.

If your RAM is programmed for DDR4-3200, everything will be saved within the XMP 2.0 profile.

All you should have to do is select it from the drop-down, save and exit.

[RitualWOW]

3 hours ago, -rascal- said:

Yes, XMP 2.0 profile.

If your RAM is programmed for DDR4-3200, everything will be saved within the XMP 2.0 profile.

All you should have to do is select it from the drop-down, save and exit.

okay thanks sorry for the late replies I always forget 

 

[rorythedawg]

20 hours ago, RitualWOW said:

its a AF version of the 1600 its basically the 2600 but with the 1600 name

 

Still, your RAM speed isnt going to make a difference on these chips, I got negligible improvement on my 3600 by increasing clock speeds, but did get a measurable improvement from going from dual channel to quad channel.