Over clocking ram

[venomx]

Does it make much difference in gaming or elsewhere?
CPU is ryzen 5 3600 with noctua nh-u12s cooler
Mobo is a gigabyte a320 m-h...

I over clocked before to about 2667mhz but did a bios update and it's gone back to stock. So it is possible 

I like playing cyberpunk 2077

https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/GA-A320M-H-rev-11#kf


My RAM is
HyperX 16GB (2x8GB) 2400MHz DDR4 Memory - HX424C15FB2K2/16

[bellabichon]

It's possible, but it might not be worth the trouble. The most you could get is around a 5fps gain in performance.

[Analog]

Not really worth it to overclock RAM unless you go for very high frequency and even then the gains are usually less than a couple percent. Also on that A320 board, memory overclocking will be quite limited. When it comes to memory and Ryzen what makes the biggest difference is single rank vs dual rank, the latter being the better. If you want to know more about it -> 

 

[venomx]

Fair enough,  ya its dual rank. Theres only two slots and I have two 8GB ram sticks 

[Analog]

6 minutes ago, venomx said:

Fair enough,  ya its dual rank. Theres only two slots and I have two 8GB ram sticks 

 

The board being two slots and you having both populated doesn't necessarily mean that it is "dual rank."  8GB Ram sticks are generally single rank sticks and running two of them, doesn't make them dual rank. Just check out the video I linked in the previous post, it's quite interesting stuff. 

[venomx]

23 hours ago, Analog said:

 

The board being two slots and you having both populated doesn't necessarily mean that it is "dual rank."  8GB Ram sticks are generally single rank sticks and running two of them, doesn't make them dual rank. Just check out the video I linked in the previous post, it's quite interesting stuff. 

Just bumped it upto 2666Mhz. Will see if any difference

[venomx]

at 2933Mhz now. Is it safe to increase the Voltage to between 1.2 and 1.5 ? It's currently at 1.2v ?