Overclocking ram

[Laurysss]

Does it help? My 8gb run at 700mhz. In the motherboard there is mhz up to 2400mhz - can i just set it to that or lower? 

[Chillstice]

Set what to what, and why lower?

[Norwegiantweaker]

wait what ? no please dont even go into the bios you seem to not know what.... bios is lol 

[Laurysss]

wait what ? no please dont even go into the bios you seem to not know what.... bios is lol 

I meant in the bios not mobo. 

[Laurysss]

Set what to what, and why lower?

Set the ram speed. Is it normal that its running at 700mhz?

[Norwegiantweaker]

Set the ram speed. Is it normal that its running at 700mhz?

it cant possibly run at 700 unless its ddr1.. its a multiplier in there somewhere dont worry its not running at 700 and its waste of power and time imo to OC 8bg of ram 

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unless u changed stuff around in the BIOS ?

[Laurysss]

it cant possibly run at 700 unless its ddr1.. its a multiplier in there somewhere dont worry its not running at 700 and its waste of power and time imo to OC 8bg of ram 

EDIT:

unless u changed stuff around in the BIOS ?

I didnt. Speccy/Cpuid shows its runing 800mhz. Not more. Should i set it to 1600 in bios?

[SpyRosL]

DDR stands for double data rate which means 800mhz times 2=1600mhz

 

If your memory is 2400mhz just go to the bios and set it to 2400mhz(cpu-z will show 1200mhz)

[AlwaysFSX]

I didnt. Speccy/Cpuid shows its runing 800mhz. Not more. Should i set it to 1600 in bios?

Because it's ram, it shows on programs as half the actual operating speed. It'S running at 1600MHz.

[Laurysss]

DDR stands for double data rate which means 800mhz times 2=1600mhz

 

If your memory is 2400mhz just go to the bios and set it to 2400mhz(cpu-z will show 1200mhz)

Does the bios know that my ram can go to 2400 mhz? In the bios (dram) goes up to 2400 mhz. Should i set it to that?

[SpyRosL]

Does the bios know that my ram can go to 2400 mhz? In the bios (dram) goes up to 2400 mhz. Should i set it to that?

No,this is probably as high as the motheboard can handle.You should take a look at your kit's manual and see what the stock speeds are and then set them in bios.Or tell us the exact kit you have.

Idk if AMD boards support xmp. AMD guys,show yourself.

[KeltonDSMer]

No,this is probably as high as the motheboard can handle.You should take a look at your kit's manual and see what the stock speeds are and then set them in bios.Or tell us the exact kit you have.

Idk if AMD boards support xmp. AMD guys,show yourself.

My M5A99FX ProR2.0 supports xmp profiles, but it is just as easy to manually enter the speed and timings.

 

I would read the manual, should be pretty obvious. This mobo box says up to 2133mhz FWIW.

 

Honestly I doubt it is going to show much improvement OCing the RAM to 2400mhz. I had a little bit of memory error issues with A64 stress test when OCing the CPU and found it much easier to dial in the CPU with the RAM just sitting at 800/1600 9-9-9-24. An extra 100mhz CPU clock will likely show more improvement in most applications compared to an aggressive RAM OC.

 

What I am trying to say is that I would get everything you can out of the CPU before messing with RAM overclocks.

 

Do not feel like you "wasted" anything by not running your DIMMs at 2400mhz, your modules might be able to run tighter timings at a given speed compared to lower rated DIMMs and maintain stability. Lowering timings is essentially OCing the RAM, bandwidth does not change but the actual time it takes to access a piece of memory improves. Considering there is no graphics portion on these chips, total bandwidth doesn't really matter. APU's are in a different scenario.

 

1600mhz cl9=.005 seconds

2133mhz cl11=.00516 seconds

 

^^^Example of 1600mhz ram running "faster" than 2133mhz...lower total bandwidth but faster memory access which I would assume is what matters with these chips under most operations.