How To Overclock Ram

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

As le title says , how do I overclock ram baby.

[phongle123]

1) Shut Down Computer

1a) Restart computer, if using this method skip step 2

2) Press the little button on your computer that starts up the computer

3) Spam the button that gets you into your BIOS

4) Click the Overclock Tab, yours might be called differently

5) Click DRAM

6) Find Automatic Speeds Settings and pick a speed

7) Save and Exit

 

[Bananasplit_00]

5 minutes ago, phongle123 said:

1) Shut Down Computer

1a) Restart computer, if using this method skip step 2

2) Press the little button on your computer that starts up the computer

3) Spam the button that gets you into your BIOS

4) Click the Overclock Tab, yours might be called differently

5) Click DRAM

6) Find Automatic Speeds Settings and pick a speed

7) Save and Exit

 

well... thats litteraly just the super basics. you will need to raise the voltage aswell and you compleatly ignored timeings aswell

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

Just now, Bananasplit_00 said:

well... thats litteraly just the super basics. you will need to raise the voltage aswell and you compleatly ignored timeings aswell

I want to overclock my 1066 to 1333. How many voltage should I raise?

[phongle123]

Just now, Bananasplit_00 said:

well... thats litteraly just the super basics. you will need to raise the voltage aswell and you compleatly ignored timeings aswell

I find that additional things besides the basics are something that people need to actually do a little research on. Like people always want to just throw up the voltage on their CPU for no reason because they see that people say you need to increase voltage to overclock. And then there are the people that say that they want to increase the voltage on their GPU also. But yea, timings etc. just aren't necessary as they don't provide noticeable improvements to the average user and voltage really isn't an issue for rams unless you have one of those lower voltage rams which isn't that often. Nothing I'm saying is set in stone. So correct me if I'm wrong and you can provide him with the additional details.

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

2 minutes ago, phongle123 said:

I find that additional things besides the basics are something that people need to actually do a little research on. Like people always want to just throw up the voltage on their CPU for no reason because they see that people say you need to increase voltage to overclock. And then there are the people that say that they want to increase the voltage on their GPU also. But yea, timings etc. just aren't necessary as they don't provide noticeable improvements to the average user and voltage really isn't an issue for rams unless you have one of those lower voltage rams which isn't that often. Nothing I'm saying is set in stone. So correct me if I'm wrong and you can provide him with the additional details.

wait so do I ned to raise voltage or

[phongle123]

3 minutes ago, EasonIDontKnowAnything said:

wait so do I ned to raise voltage or

First and foremost thing you want to do is to NOT raise the voltage. Because voltage is the main contributor to heat in your system.

Overclocking is a matter of guess and check. If your system won't start with an overclock and no change in voltage then your system will either,

1) restart like normal and you need to go back into the bios

2) it won't restart and you simply need to clear CMOS, clearing CMOS will put your BIOS back to default. Meaning you have to do your overclock again since it defaulted everything.

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

Just now, phongle123 said:

First and foremost thing you want to do is to NOT raise the voltage. Because voltage is the main contributor to heat in your system.

Overclocking is a matter of guess and check. If your system won't start with an overclock and no change in voltage then your system with either,

1) restart like normal and you need to go back into the bios

2) it won't restart and you simply need to clear CMOS, clearing CMOS will put your BIOS back to default. Meaning you have to do your overclock again since it defaulted everything.

how do I clear cmos

[phongle123]

Just now, EasonIDontKnowAnything said:

how do I clear cmos

Different for every motherboard, it could be on the IO Shield. The rectangular spot in the back of your case that has all the USB ports, mic, headphone, etc. There should be a black circle or black square that is the Clear CMOS.

 

If it is not there then it is on the Motherboard itself.

 

 

 

[EasonIDontKnowAnything]

1 minute ago, phongle123 said:

Different for every motherboard, it could be on the IO Shield. The rectangular spot in the back of your case that has all the USB ports, mic, headphone, etc. There should be a black circle or black square that is the Clear CMOS.

 

If it is not there then it is on the Motherboard itself.

 

 

 

it would not reset anything on the computer itself doe right

[phongle123]

2 minutes ago, EasonIDontKnowAnything said:

it would not reset anything on the computer itself doe right

Only the BIOS. None of your other computer settings outside of BIOS are affected. Because it's literally a button made just to clear the BIOS in case you mess up an overclock.

Some motherboards, IDK if this is Windows or motherboard based. I haven't ever tested it. But if it fails to start up 3 times, it will automatically reset.

[Bananasplit_00]

2 hours ago, phongle123 said:

I find that additional things besides the basics are something that people need to actually do a little research on. Like people always want to just throw up the voltage on their CPU for no reason because they see that people say you need to increase voltage to overclock. And then there are the people that say that they want to increase the voltage on their GPU also. But yea, timings etc. just aren't necessary as they don't provide noticeable improvements to the average user and voltage really isn't an issue for rams unless you have one of those lower voltage rams which isn't that often. Nothing I'm saying is set in stone. So correct me if I'm wrong and you can provide him with the additional details.

timings DO matter if you have RAM with crap timings to start of with, if he has decent RAM then sure, dosent matter, but they do provide an improvement in RAM latency, its correct that they wont provide much of a noticable improvement but its still there, raising voltage only gets important when you start to push your RAM to the limits, i tend to overclock untill it cant go further within safe voltage so i would raise the voltage atleast to get a few 100MHz more out of it with lower timings. i just found your turorial quite lacking in information about the other parts mostly.