RAM overclocking tips

[Hunter-97-G]

Hello,

 

A couple of days back I made a post asking about a bottleneck on my GTX 1080. It's normally running at 85-90% usage, instead of 96-99% which'd be optimal. So I overclocked my CPU (4790K) to 4.6 Ghz and usage was exactly the same. With that out of the way, the other possible option is RAM frequency (16GB 1600Mhz CL9), so I want to overclock it. But I have a few doubts:

• How does it affect the component's lifespan?
• Which frequency should I overclock it to? 1866Mhz wouldn't be much of an upgrade, I was thinking 2133Mhz or maybe even 2400.
• I was told that is was hard to find RAM OC stability. What applications shouls I be using to test that?

Thank you.

[SLAYR]

An oc on your ram will not help at all unless you are just running benchmarks like cinebench which likes low cas speeds.

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, Hunter-97-G said:

Hello,

 

A couple of days back I made a post asking about a bottleneck on my GTX 1080. It's normally running at 85-90% usage, instead of 96-99% which'd be optimal. So I overclocked my CPU (4790K) to 4.6 Ghz and usage was exactly the same. With that out of the way, the other possible option is RAM frequency (16GB 1600Mhz CL9), so I want to overclock it. But I have a few doubts:

• How does it affect the component's lifespan?
• Which frequency should I overclock it to? 1866Mhz wouldn't be much of an upgrade, I was thinking 2133Mhz or maybe even 2400.
• I was told that is was hard to find RAM OC stability. What applications shouls I be using to test that?

Thank you.

What resolution and frame rate are you playing at? It might just be that there's no more work for the GPU to do. 4790K and a GTX 1080 are not bottlenecking at all. 

 

And I would not overclock RAM as it will not help games as much as you think (quarters of a nano-second).

[Hunter-97-G]

2 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

What resolution and frame rate are you playing at? It might just be that there's no more work for the GPU to do. 4790K and a GTX 1080 are not bottlenecking at all. 

 

And I would not overclock RAM as it will not help games as much as you think (quarters of a nano-second).

It's 4K @60Hz.

[ARikozuM]

You're not missing out on anything then. I would dial back AA by one step since 4K doesn't need much AA in the first place.

 

Edit: What games are you playing that your usages are as you've said?

[Hunter-97-G]

4 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

You're not missing out on anything then. I would dial back AA by one step since 4K doesn't need much AA in the first place.

 

Edit: What games are you playing that your usages are as you've said?

Doom 2016, Witcher 3, Overwatch... at maxed out settings just with low AA. Synthetics like Firestrike or Heaven throw the same usage.

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, Hunter-97-G said:

Doom 2016, Witcher 3, Overwatch... at maxed out settings just with low AA. Synthetics like Firestrike or Heaven throw the same usage.

That's about the same as my wife's usage once she hits Vsync limit of 60 on her 4790K. You're not missing anything.

[Hunter-97-G]

4 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

That's about the same as my wife's usage once she hits Vsync limit of 60 on her 4790K. You're not missing anything.

But I don't have v-sync activated. Performance is fine, though, and in line with what I've seen in benchmarks.

[SLAYR]

19 minutes ago, Hunter-97-G said:

But I don't have v-sync activated. Performance is fine, though, and in line with what I've seen in benchmarks.

Then what is wrong?