Looking for DDR4 overclocking guide

[sazrocks]

Basically the title. I'm looking for a good guide on overclocking ddr4 that works on skylake. What voltages are safe? Are temps something I should worry about? What should I use to test stability? Should I go for cas or clocks? 

[LienusLateTips]

IDK about others but,

 

Use memtest86 to test stability.

[Master Disaster]

Buy a big padlock and place it on the ram?

 

 

Seriously though, just use XMP

[sazrocks]

22 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Buy a big padlock and place it on the ram?

 

 

Seriously though, just use XMP

But what if my Ram is already running at 2133MHz and I want to go further, hence "overclocking".

[Master Disaster]

18 hours ago, sazrocks said:

But what if my Ram is already running at 2133MHz and I want to go further, hence "overclocking".

In real world scenarios OCing your RAM will give you no noticeable increase in performance, sure you might be able to increase some benchmark numbers (things like AES decryption and archive extraction) but it won't make any difference to the things you do the majority of the time.

 

Use XMP (or whatever Ryzens equivalent is called) to set your RAM to its JEDEC profiles settings and that's it, you don't need to mess with anything else.

 

BTW if your RAM is running at 2133 then its likely not overclocked, obviously unless your bought 2133 RAM. 2133 is the default speed all DDR4 runs at so go into your UEFI and check you have XMP enabled.