Memory overclocking

[Ebony Falcon]

Can someone please point me to some videos and tutorials for the basics and onwards for memory oc 

as I found out today there way more to it with timings and single vs dual rank ect that I Litterly no nothing about and I watched a few videos that were really confusing 

 

iv always just turned on xmp and left it but want to look into it a bit more 

 

Many thanks 

 

I have Corsair vengeance led 3200mhz ram don’t even no if it’s any good 

[RONOTHAN##]

In terms of beginner tutorials, there aren't really any out there that I'd particularly recommend. Buildzoid (Youtube Channel Actually Hardcore Overclocking) does do a lot of walkthroughs as he's trying to overclock a kit of RAM, what he does, what he doesn't do, his thought process behind it, etc., as well as explain what a lot of the different things do and how to set them for maximum performance, but I wouldn't exactly call him "beginner."

 

8 minutes ago, Ebony Falcon said:

I have Corsair vengeance led 3200mhz ram don’t even no if it’s any good 

It can be, but likely isn't. 3200MT/s CL16 is the generic memory bin that almost any memory IC can fit into (memory IC is the main thing that determines how good a kit will overclock), whether that be Samsung 8Gb B die (usually good though the stuff in the 3200MT/s CL16 bin is usually pretty terrible), Micron 8Gb Rev. E (fairly good, not amazing but it can clock pretty high), Micron 16Gb Rev. B (second to B die), Micron 8Gb Rev. B (terrible), Hynix CJR (OK, not bad, not great), Hynix DJR (better than CJR, if you're lucky will clock to the moon but doesn't tighten at all), Hynix AFR (terrible), Samsung 8Gb C die (not necessarily bad in terms of performance when overclocked, about on par with CJR, but actually overclocking it is a nightmare), Samsung 8Gb D die (not amazing, similar to DJR), Nanya 8Gb B die (actually pretty good, similar in performance to Micron 16Gb Rev. B but not as voltage tolerant and doesn't clock quite as well), and many others that I'm not mentioning.

 

There are two ways to tell what memory IC you've got on that kit, either by using a program called Thaiphoon Burner to see what's present on the stick by reading the SPD, though that isn't always reliable (Samsung C die, for instance, will usually misreport as Samsung B die), or (thanks to the fact you've got a Corsair kit) looking at the version number on the modules themselves to decode. There will be something on there that should be in the format "ver. X.XX" that you can just google to figure out what memory IC you've got and see roughly what you can expect from a memory overclock. There is a way to decode it manually (the first digit is the manufacturer, the second is the density, the 3rd is the specific die), but usually it's just easier to google "Corsair v4.31" or "Corsair v.5.29" and see what comes up instead. 

[Ebony Falcon]

22 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

In terms of beginner tutorials, there aren't really any out there that I'd particularly recommend. Buildzoid (Youtube Channel Actually Hardcore Overclocking) does do a lot of walkthroughs as he's trying to overclock a kit of RAM, what he does, what he doesn't do, his thought process behind it, etc., as well as explain what a lot of the different things do and how to set them for maximum performance, but I wouldn't exactly call him "beginner."

 

It can be, but likely isn't. 3200MT/s CL16 is the generic memory bin that almost any memory IC can fit into (memory IC is the main thing that determines how good a kit will overclock), whether that be Samsung 8Gb B die (usually good though the stuff in the 3200MT/s CL16 bin is usually pretty terrible), Micron 8Gb Rev. E (fairly good, not amazing but it can clock pretty high), Micron 16Gb Rev. B (second to B die), Micron 8Gb Rev. B (terrible), Hynix CJR (OK, not bad, not great), Hynix DJR (better than CJR, if you're lucky will clock to the moon but doesn't tighten at all), Hynix AFR (terrible), Samsung 8Gb C die (not necessarily bad in terms of performance when overclocked, about on par with CJR, but actually overclocking it is a nightmare), Samsung 8Gb D die (not amazing, similar to DJR), Nanya 8Gb B die (actually pretty good, similar in performance to Micron 16Gb Rev. B but not as voltage tolerant and doesn't clock quite as well), and many others that I'm not mentioning.

 

There are two ways to tell what memory IC you've got on that kit, either by using a program called Thaiphoon Burner to see what's present on the stick by reading the SPD, though that isn't always reliable (Samsung C die, for instance, will usually misreport as Samsung B die), or (thanks to the fact you've got a Corsair kit) looking at the version number on the modules themselves to decode. There will be something on there that should be in the format "ver. X.XX" that you can just google to figure out what memory IC you've got and see roughly what you can expect from a memory overclock. There is a way to decode it manually (the first digit is the manufacturer, the second is the density, the 3rd is the specific die), but usually it's just easier to google "Corsair v4.31" or "Corsair v.5.29" and see what comes up instead. 

How do you find out what gear it’s running in ? 

[PDifolco]

One only address (YT) about RAM OCing : Buildzoid/ Actually Hardcore Overclocking

Sure the vids are quite dense but the guy is sooo knowledgeable...

[RONOTHAN##]

1 minute ago, Ebony Falcon said:

How do you find out what gear it’s running in ? 

If you're just running XMP at 3200MT/s, you're in Gear 1 if you've got a CPU with gear modes on it (11th and 12th gen Intel, the only place where you've got multiple gear modes). If you want to run at higher speeds, you're gonna be using something like ASRock Timing Configurator, MemTweakIt!, or just doing the math in CPU-Z to figure it out (if the memory controller frequency is the same as the DRAM frequency, you're in Gear 1, if the memory controller frequency is half the DRAM frequency, you're in Gear 2).

[Ebony Falcon]

1 minute ago, RONOTHAN## said:

If you're just running XMP at 3200MT/s, you're in Gear 1 if you've got a CPU with gear modes on it (11th and 12th gen Intel, the only place where you've got multiple gear modes). If you want to run at higher speeds, you're gonna be using something like ASRock Timing Configurator, MemTweakIt!, or just doing the math in CPU-Z to figure it out (if the memory controller frequency is the same as the DRAM frequency, you're in Gear 1, if the memory controller frequency is half the DRAM frequency, you're in Gear 2).

Ah ok cheers bro do not on my 8700k lol