CPU Overclocking

[TheDeadGhost]

Hi,

 

Just about to OC my CPU and there's only 1 thing I'm left wondering about after looking into overclocking.

 

Everywhere I go I see that along with CPU overclocking they always talk about the RAM frequency and voltages as well. Do I need to touch the RAM at all or can I just leave that as it is and only touch the CPU clock and voltage?

 

Thanks!

[yannickverc]

Only doing the core voltage and core clock is enough.

[PrimeSonic]

You really shouldn't be worrying about overclocking your RAM.

If you can point it to an XMP profile, you're all set.

The rest is all your CPU.

[Constantin]

You can augment the bus speed from 100 to 102~103 it augments everything even the ram.

I don't think you will have any trouble.

I have mine set to 105 like for year now.

[Lays]

Depends on what you want to do, if you just want increased game performance & render times, CPU core & cpu voltage & perhaps a tiny bump up in VCCIN is all you'll need.

 

If you want to go for high benchmark scores, Cache & RAM overclocks will help.

 

 

 

Take this for instance, this is the high score list for XTU with 4770k CPU's.  Look at how many people are near my score with 200+ mhz higher on their core, the reason for that is my cache & RAM were overclocked.

 

 

[Curufinwe_wins]

Depends on what you want to do, if you just want increased game performance & render times, CPU core & cpu voltage & perhaps a tiny bump up in VCCIN is all you'll need.

If you want to go for high benchmark scores, Cache & RAM overclocks will help.

Take this for instance, this is the high score list for XTU with 4770k CPU's. Look at how many people are near my score with 200+ mhz higher on their core, the reason for that is my cache & RAM were overclocked.

To a certain extent (as in getting over a hump around 4.0-4.4 on haswell iirc) uncore overclocking is pretty huge. Then it doesn't matter.

Likewise above certain speeds (and timings) ram speed really doesn't matter. 1866 CAS 9 is pretty much just as good as anything else with haswell iirc.

(This is to augment Layz's post, not a correction to it)