Overclocking

[moksh57]

i have seen on the intel website that 11700k require 3200mhz ram, and motherboard having speed upto 5000mhz

so i just wanted to know that can i overclock my memory higher than the clock speed on 11700k

 

[RONOTHAN##]

No CPU necessarily requires a specific RAM speed. The number you read is the maximum rated memory speed, and thus anything faster than that is considered an overclock. You should be able to overclock your memory to whatever speed you want it to, assuming you have a B560 or Z series motherboard.

[moksh57]

1 minute ago, RONOTHAN## said:

No CPU necessarily requires a specific RAM speed. The number you read is the maximum rated memory speed, and thus anything faster than that is considered an overclock. You should be able to overclock your memory to whatever speed you want it to, assuming you have a B560 or Z series motherboard.

then , how can i overclock to higher speed

 

[RONOTHAN##]

1 minute ago, moksh57 said:

then , how can i overclock to higher speed

 

the easiest way is to just enable XMP in the BIOS. If you already did that, that's about as much as I would personally do. 

 

That being said, you can try your hand at memory overclocking, though I wouldn't necessarily recommend it. It's very prone to very weird types of instability that are very hard to diagnose. If you still want to try it, the basics are increase the speed until you have errors in programs like Memtest64, then either back off the frequency, loosen the timings, or increase the voltage. Try not to exceed the maximum recommended memory voltage or your CPU (usually somewhere between 1.45-1.5V). Overclocking is a giant balancing act, and you need to make sure that the timings, the frequency, and the voltage are in balance. You also want to benchmark the system in something like Cinebench between each change to make sure you're actually increasing the performance, since if you loosen the timings too far you can lose memory speed. Sometimes running at a lower speed with very tight timings is faster than faster speed with looser timings.

 

Disclaimer: I do not overclock memory often, I just know the general way of which you do it. I am not responsible for anything you do to break your system, yada yada legal stuff.