ram Ram overclocking help

[Valereandota]

Hi everyone,
I'm new to this so please be gentle lol. 

I have a pretty good setup running but I'm starting to think that my ram might be the bottleneck and want to safely overclock it.
Currently, I have 4x Kingston KVR24N17S8/8 modules which I don't plan on upgrading.
They are running at 2400Mhz which isn't great.
What would be the safe but efficient value to overclock them to?
I tried using the Dram calculator tool for Ryzen but was honestly lost with it.
I did find out that I have E-dies.

Any help/guidance would be appreciated.

 

Setup:
GIGABYTE Aorus z390 pro
Intel i7-8700k@4.3ghz(OC)

ASUS TUF RTX3080 

[Chris Pratt]

There is no settings we can give you. It depends on the mobo, CPU, RAM, and even PSU. Even given the same specs and model numbers, results will differ rig to rig, based on silicon quality. You'll need to do some research and try different things to hone in on what works for your unique set up.

[RanchTheHay005]

hey

 

from what i had done with my rig...ram overclocking was similar to cpu overclocking in the bios

 

i simply increased the "host clock frequency" (if multiplier of the ram is locked) or increase the multiplier then increase the voltage a little by little....

 

your ram might tend to overheat at loads....might wanna try adding in fans (if it starts to overheat...like get more than 55c at loads you might wanna reduce the speed or fit in a cooler)

 

btw...i think your ram is some kind of BUDGET RAM...it does not have XMP....anyways you dont have to worry about your ram speed running at 2400mhz...your i7 can support RAM speeds only upto 2666mhz and I dont think that 266mhz is going to give much of a boost in performance...UNLESS YOU ARE GOING TO CRAVE ON THAT EXTRA 5 FPS YOU MIGHT GET IN CS:GO?

 

 if you still want to overclock you have to do a little research on your RAM and its overclocking capabilities....and if your RAM can support higher frequencies..you cant take it more than 2666mhz...if you try...you might end up having an unstable computer or a pc which does not boot

 

 

[Valereandota]

On 5/31/2021 at 6:00 PM, Sed Linus said:

hey

 

from what i had done with my rig...ram overclocking was similar to cpu overclocking in the bios

 

i simply increased the "host clock frequency" (if multiplier of the ram is locked) or increase the multiplier then increase the voltage a little by little....

 

your ram might tend to overheat at loads....might wanna try adding in fans (if it starts to overheat...like get more than 55c at loads you might wanna reduce the speed or fit in a cooler)

 

btw...i think your ram is some kind of BUDGET RAM...it does not have XMP....anyways you dont have to worry about your ram speed running at 2400mhz...your i7 can support RAM speeds only upto 2666mhz and I dont think that 266mhz is going to give much of a boost in performance...UNLESS YOU ARE GOING TO CRAVE ON THAT EXTRA 5 FPS YOU MIGHT GET IN CS:GO?

 

 if you still want to overclock you have to do a little research on your RAM and its overclocking capabilities....and if your RAM can support higher frequencies..you cant take it more than 2666mhz...if you try...you might end up having an unstable computer or a pc which does not boot

 

 

Thanks a LOT for this detailed explanation.

I read up that the board can still benefit from a higher MHZ rate even when the CPU can't support it but I obviously had no clue what it actually improves and what not.
5 fps is CS:GO, I'm down lol:

P.s. Also thanks to Chris for his response!

[RanchTheHay005]

10 hours ago, Valereandota said:

Thanks a LOT for this detailed explanation.

I read up that the board can still benefit from a higher MHZ rate even when the CPU can't support it but I obviously had no clue what it actually improves and what not.
5 fps is CS:GO, I'm down lol:

P.s. Also thanks to Chris for his response!

welcome...any time any help

 

 

 

and tht 5 fps in cs:go was a joke...you can get a extra snappier pc..but that wont be noticeable