Cheater's Guide to RAM Overclocking - Easy Frequency Boost

Overclocking memory can be a painstaking process, with manually setting and individually testing specific timings. Or, you can set voltage, set your frequency, and let the motherboard do the rest. Check out the links below for more info and don't forget to stop by www.hwhound.com/ for more news and reviews!
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[@HardwareHorizon]

Wow, I'm gonna have to pin this due to some misleading comments here. This method WILL improve your performance. That said, you should always run some tests to make sure. It is true that loose timings in certain programs can lower performance. I tended to see an increase overall though. Follow the link to see some testing results I wished I had included in this video. www.hwhound.com/ram/ballistix-tactical-tracer-rgb-ram-review/#Aida64_Testing Update: This video is in context with 2nd gen Ryzen. Based on others content, tight timings are much more preferable with Ryzen 3rd gen. I intend to do a cheater's guide to timings soon, and possibly a guide to Ryzen DRAM Calculator if time permits.

[@TechWeLove]

I have a problem, and maybe you have the solution. I can't get my RAM to work past 1600 Mhz, yet it is rated for 2133 Mhz 4 Dimm 32 GB, 8 GB each. My motherboard says it can overclock to 2000 Mhz on RAM, but when I go into BIOS, I can't get it to show 2000 Mhz option. It only shows 1600, 1866, and 2133 Mhz. Problem is, it's stuck at 1600, and won't even boot properly when I set it to 1866 Mhz. Should I increase the voltage, bit by bit, and will that allow to me run at 1866 Mhz ? What do I do to get the 2000 Mhz option to appear ? I'm working with a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 Motherboard. If you want, I can upload a KZbin video, and have you check that out, if it would help ? @HardwareHounds #HardwareHounds

[@helpmereach0subscribers364]

Thank you for showing me this! Literally no other video on youtube out there was clear at all

[@EzGzUs]

Hardware Hounds hey man thanks for the info ... I just purchased 3200mhz ram but it’s only running at 2133 ... how can I fix this

[@swifty1969]

@@EzGzUs did you try xmp auto profile?

[@iamboring159]

Hey can you help me? I have 2 ram sticks, both 8gb. And windows only detects one. Buy nvidia thingy software detects both. Also everything in pc is brand new.

[@KhaiNadzmi]

Helpful tutorial. Constructive feedback : turn down the music so I could hear you better.

[@AntonRacing]

i like the music its like a heist with that

[@MrPirateking619]

This video feels like it's from 2013

[@Poizon-]

Even older

[@77794471]

MrPirateking619 was going to say

[@thesurant2014]

@Manuel Santana Don't shame us SE users. It's better than the 6 at least and is still getting updates

[@thesurant2014]

@Manuel Santana same haha. March 2016

[@bradleypeate3266]

😅

[@casmx7300]

I highly recommend anyone doing this to run benchmarks to make sure they're actually getting a performance increase. The reason is because when you let the mobo set the latency CAS by leaving it at AUTO, then it'll push your CAS to stupid numbers. I mean sure, you might be able to push your 2666 mhz to 3400 mhz but that nice 16 CAS you were sporting probably jumped up to something ridiculous. Doesn't do much good if your CL, Trcd, Trp etc are in their 30s. There's a good chance you're actually killing your performance. What you can do however is do what is suggested here, up your voltage, up your frequency and leave everything at AUTO and then run CPU-Z to find out what timings the board set your sticks at, then go back into the bios and manually set those numbers, then start bringing them down bit by bit to see if you actually can get a performance boost to run stable. Remember to run benchmarks to compare actual performance between settings. Otherwise, you're just guessing and making assumptions when the reality is, you might actually be making things slower/worse. Edit: To pull an example from this video, for his memory to achieve approx the same performance as his stock (non-overclocked) settings at a frequency of 3400hz, his CAS would have to be at minimum, CAS 22. It's a shame he didn't run CPU-Z because I'd be willing to bet his mobo set his CAS closer to 28-30+. I mean, nobody is going to buy 3400mhz memory when their clock numbers are 32,34,34,68. My advice for "simple" overclocking is to up the voltage by about 0.15 (or even 0.10 if you're running cheapish RAM. It's always better to err on the side of caution when you're uncertain), leave your frequency alone, go into your timings, lowering each of them by 1 and reducing your tRAS by about 2 or 3 and then check for stability. If you can load into Windows, that's a pretty good sign. If it's stable after running a stress test for a decent amount of time (I prefer Prime95 for about an hour but OCCT is probably okay too), you have a successful OC that'll actually be a performance increase. Now you could stop there and call it good but if you want to try to squeeze more out of your memory, you can start tightening the clocks one at a time (Starting with your CAS then going down the line one at a time) until you find a setting that's unstable, then go back to the last bootable setting and stress test for stability. Whenever it's unstable, simply back up to the previous setting and test again, backtracking until you find the most stable setting. Eventually, you'll find that sweet spot at which point you'll be successfully overclocked with an actual performance increase. Now if you want to OC your memory to the absolute best performance, you'll probably eventually have to mess with boosting the frequency but at that point, things get way more complicated. Simply leaving things at AUTO is not likely going to net you any extra performance (and more likely lose you some). This is why for beginners, I suggest leaving your frequency alone, up your voltage a bit and see how much you can tighten your timings. I hope this helps.

[@adrian2736]

So if i take the same steps as him and my cas stays at 16 i should be fine?

[@unitychansmmd3905]

Wow this helped me overclock my ram. Setting it to auto it is just as you said. The first CL number is NOT affected but all other number after that become 20+ Now after manually set it, I get real performance boost. (by using the number from a person who have the same ram) I'm able to push my corsair 2666mhz to 3000mhz and with cl timing of 16 17 17 35

[@unitychansmmd3905]

@@adrian2736 No, take a look at your tRCD, tRP, tRAS, tRC too. First get xmp to profile 1 and screen cap the default value in cpu z. Then you can adjust the timing as the OP said.

[@casmx7300]

​@@adrian2736 Every motherboard will be different but strictly speaking, simply increasing the voltage and the frequency a bit but leaving everything else on AUTO will not be an actual performance increase. When set to AUTO, the motherboard loosens the timings to compensate for the higher frequency and will usually overcompensate to ensure a stable run, resulting in slower overall performance. Now I'm not going to suggest I'm any kind of expert or anything and there may be boards out there designed to overclock exactly the way this video is suggesting. I simply don't know. That's why I recommend running benchmarks, checking timings with CPU-Z etc. Don't make any assumptions, it's always in your best interest to run benchmarks to verify that your overclock is actually giving your a performance boost and to run stresstests to verify your overclock is stable.

[@cammgt3rs370]

A lot of brands have lousy overclocks and Userbenchmarck always show failures with them even on my Asus Z390 ROG Maximus X1 Formula.

[@etestg7333]

Thank you. Your method was so simple and elegant. After applying the settings I've used ryzen dram calculator to identify the timmings used by the auto bios and than tighten the timmings even further. You helped a lot.

[@JoseCalonsor]

This guy deserves a youtube recognition. overclocked my 2666 ram to 3000 using my b450m d3h board. very happy with my ryzen build. Thanks man!

[@berdonhowardkeith6199]

Make it 3200

[@JoseCalonsor]

@@berdonhowardkeith6199 i tried but unfortunately my ram is no longer stable at 3200. when playing bo4 i get bsod on ultra settings

[@jamestor6700]

@@JoseCalonsor 3000 and 3200 aren't that different in performance with ryzen anyway

[@chenyi8029]

How much voltage did u set there??

[@mohamedashour457]

@@username8644 I have b450 gaming - F I dont have the XMP so am doing it manually, i changed it from 2100 ti 2933 as the Gskill tridentZ RGB can handle 3000mhz and I changed the Voltage to 1.35 instead of 1.2 I can not find the other stuff that I read online. would that be enough or it would damage something?

[@FinMacShark]

You know what after being on gigabytes forum, talking to gigabyte support for a lifetime with no success, then i watched your video and at last I got my corsair vengeance 3200mhz running at the correct speed on the gigabyte b450 aorus pro, thank you so much, after a week of failure you helped me get it working, your the man 👍👍👍👍

[@nuubgenius7455]

I dont usually like or comment youtube tutorials but when i do it's really helpful. Thanks man really appreciate your tutorial! Great Work!

[@James130899]

Sorry but at 1:10, the voltage of 1.2 is the JDEC standard default, it will say that regardless of what it actually is if set to XMP, It is likely to already be 1.35 depending on the ram if you are using XMP

[@faultline3936]

I didn't know you could just type the numbers right away. I was having trouble of how to switch them up. Thanks

[@thomaslijnen5981]

20 seconds in occt and it says “stopped, error detected on core 1” i need help what should i decrease?

[@whatsontelevision3270]

Thank you; I just overclocked my G.skillz 3200mhz ram to 3600mhz at 1.36v. Everything working perfect after running multiple test!👍👍👍

[@IXeRios]

How I tested my overclocked memory : I opened about 30 heavy tabs in chrome - 100% detect if something wrong with memory

[@HaydenH]

You might not even have enough ram for that.

[@calm455]

@@HaydenH very true

[@f.b.i-senpai1098]

But can it run Crysis When you opened about 30 heavy tabs in chrome?

[@coows]

So, 30 tabs of cookie clicker?

[@IamtheWV17]

Can confirm

[@Hakeem597]

YO!!! this works!!! very EASY!!!! I am using a 2950x Threadripper with an MSI X399 Gaming Pro Carbon AC Mobo!!!! THANKS MAN!!! Running at 3400Mhz going to try to push to my Ram's full 3600!

[@googlewolly]

Decent video, but it's not recommended to leave your timings set to "Auto," as they'll get set to something high, most likely. Set the voltage to "1.35," select your desired speed (for example: 3200 MHz), and find timings that work. For example: 16-18-18-38.

[@gorkman5697]

sir please help me i have Apacer Panther Black-Gold 16GB (4*8GB) 3200Mhz CL16 DDR4 Gaming Ram (AH4U16G32C08Y7GAA-2) i have amd 5900x asus prime x 570p in bios memory frequencey i can choose 3333mhz my question is in bios ram voltage it shows 1.35 how can i make my ram goes higher than 3333mhz should i give 1.4 volt i am afraid to play with timing because last month i couldnt turn on the pc i had to send my assus motherboard to service can my ram be overclocked could you please help me how to do what to do please sorry about my poor english sir thank you

[@KyleD237]

So glad I found your video. I have a gigabyte. By keeping everything auto and changing the clock multiplayer from 24 to 29.33, gained about 25% on x plane. That's without changing the volts. Your solution was so simple. Thank you.

[@mr-glizzer3332]

GUYS if your ram doesnt want to go to 3200 mhz just set the dram voltage to 1.40 (optional) and then set the "system memory multiplier" to 31 it will automatically set itself to 3133 mhz. Yup thats it took me over 31 hours to figure this out mostly because i couldnt find the fix. XMP is not needed when you set it to 3133

[@chincemagnet]

What he didn't say was it will dial back the speed and timing until it finds something stable and can often be extremely conservative, possibly hurting your performance. Which is why you should take notes, if you're doing it this way, when the BIOS finds something stable and manually tweak timings and frequency. Yes, it can be extremely time consuming. But that's memory overclocking. It's the biggest bitch of all typical hardware overclocking. Also, run something like AIDA64 memory benchmark to see if your overclocking is gaining you any noticeable performance. If it's not, it's often times better to just stick to your memory's rated speeds for stability's sake. You're often times going to be better off either tightening timings at your rated speed or bumping up frequency at your rated timings, in both cases until you lose stability. AIDA also has memory stress tests, Intel Extreme Tuning Utility does as well and Prime95. Always stress test your overclock, if it crashes during the stress test, it's not stable and it's going to cause problems. The length of the stress test is up for debate. If it's good for a couple hours, usually it will be stable. But not always.

[@mrtube827]

Thank you and correct

[@ricardofabia]

I was having the timings all messed up by doing this. What worked for me was enabling XMP and increasing voltage to 1.4V in advanced voltage settings. Ripjaws V 3200MHz, Ryzen 5 2600x, Gigabyte Aorus M B450

[@lufeikun4385]

xmp on, voltage 1.4v and 3200mhz. ok will try.

[@gorkman5697]

sir please help me i have Apacer Panther Black-Gold 16GB (4*8GB) 3200Mhz CL16 DDR4 Gaming Ram (AH4U16G32C08Y7GAA-2) i have amd 5900x asus prime x 570p in bios memory frequencey i can choose 3333mhz my question is in bios ram voltage it shows 1.35 how can i make my ram goes higher than 3333mhz should i give 1.4 volt i am afraid to play with timing because last month i couldnt turn on the pc i had to send my assus motherboard to service can my ram be overclocked could you please help me how to do what to do please sorry about my poor english sir thank you

[@vcr4497]

I tried putting in a higher memory speed but I click enter and it says it’s 800mhz I have 3200mhz DDR4

[@jaycepeda3940]

Same for me

[@ahtzee9078]

1.4v is a lil high for the ram with only 3333mhz. The mobo probably put high timings as well by keeping it auto. I’m running mine at 3600mhz cl16 @ 1.36v. I’m a happy camper.

[@shayeladshayelad2416]

Lol . Good video i wish you were posting when i had my corsair mems couldn’t oc them over 2133 on my x370 k7 and i switched it to trident z . I had the same problem with the mem test after a day of testing all good but in star citizen it crashed... star citizen is my testing software 😉

[@Sailuz]

There's literally no way it was so easy 😂. I've been worried for so long

[@jadezzeddine7664]

Thank you so much i overclocked my 2933 to 3600 mhz and it works great do far

[@swifty1969]

what brand memory are you using if you don't mind me asking? I have 32gb (8x4)corsair lpx 3000(xmp). I want to overclock it to 3600 for my ryzen 3700x safely.

[@jadezzeddine7664]

swifty1969 hey man i have hyper x predator 2x8, try it first with 3600 if it’s not stable lower it a little bit

[@jadezzeddine7664]

I think there’s a program named aida 64 that i used to test the stability it’s safe for sure

[@swifty1969]

@@jadezzeddine7664 after serious consideration, I've decided not to take the risk of messing up my system. With the virus going on, my pc is the only thing keeping me sane.

[@jarednielsen6232]

when you OC the Ram on an AMD board. (if its a Samsung E-die) you can do it in 3 different ways. since AMD CPU's handle memory in a totally different concept than Intel. 1 Don't buy ram less than 3000Mhz. for Ryzen 2nd gen 2 you can choose from the multiplayer. either 32 with XMP. or (3266 without XMP) 3 the 3rd option if you have standard Ram which in most cases is more geared towards Intel then don't use XMP. but then you will need a Ram calculator. and then you will need to enter the values manually .this option is not suitable for most people. keep in mind that AMD CPU's are memory sensitive. AMD controls memory completely differently than Intel. (the memory controller is built into the CPU) if you own a 3000Mhz or above No Need for OC at all. all you're doing is killing your chipset. and run into all kind of issues, at least with X370 B450 and X470. in a month or 2, the new B550 and X580 motherboards coming out. that will eliminate the memory compatibility. don't expect these New X580 to be cheap. they won't be. starting price will be at least 300$ the chipset will NO longer be made by Asmedia. it's made by AMD. with fan cooler

[@itsbruh5270]

I’m thinking of using a ryzen 7 2700 with an ASUS B450 AMD Ryzen 2 Micro ATX Gaming Motherboard AM4 DDR4 HDMI DVI VGA M.2 USB 3.1 Gen2 (Prime B450M-A/CSM) with a Team 16GB (2 x 8GB) T-Force Delta II RGB Series DDR4 PC4-21300 2666MHz Desktop Memory Model will that be fine?

[@gorkman5697]

sir please help me i have Apacer Panther Black-Gold 16GB (4*8GB) 3200Mhz CL16 DDR4 Gaming Ram (AH4U16G32C08Y7GAA-2) i have amd 5900x asus prime x 570p in bios memory frequencey i can choose 3333mhz my question is in bios ram voltage it shows 1.35 how can i make my ram goes higher than 3333mhz should i give 1.4 volt i am afraid to play with timing because last month i couldnt turn on the pc i had to send my assus motherboard to service can my ram be overclocked could you please help me how to do what to do please sorry about my poor english sir thank you

[@pinkshrimp7415]

Thank you for showing me how to do this in the gigabyte bios. I tried several times to enable xmp and my system wouldn't boot anymore after doing that. After manually changing the frequency and voltage my corsair vengeance lpx 3200 Mhz ram runs seamlessly on my gigabyte b450 aorus elite with an amd ryzen 5 2600x at the advertised ram speeds. Thanks a lot :)

[@Frost-dq9bq]

you set it manually to 3200 and had no problems? I have the exact same ram, mobo and cpu as you and the xmp was crashing my computer

[@gorkman5697]

sir please help me i have Apacer Panther Black-Gold 16GB (4*8GB) 3200Mhz CL16 DDR4 Gaming Ram (AH4U16G32C08Y7GAA-2) i have amd 5900x asus prime x 570p in bios memory frequencey i can choose 3333mhz my question is in bios ram voltage it shows 1.35 how can i make my ram goes higher than 3333mhz should i give 1.4 volt i am afraid to play with timing because last month i couldnt turn on the pc i had to send my assus motherboard to service can my ram be overclocked could you please help me how to do what to do please sorry about my poor english sir thank you

[@adringtm]

Hey man thanks to you I was able to finally unlock my ram and take it from 2400 to 3600mhz. All the other guides were so much complicated and I couldn't do it

[@pissedcat1059]

Got my ram from 2400 to 2666 i feel like a techgod

[@emendatus1]

Every processor has its maximum theoretical memory bandwidth. For example yours has 50 GBit/s. Then if you have dual channel memory, let's calculate. 50/8=6.25GBytes/s. 6.25/2=3.125=3125 Mbytes/s. If your processors bandwith is 50, you can use 3125 memory in dual channel mode. Or 2100 memory in tripple channle mode. Everything depends on your processor. Dont initiate XMP in BIOS before calculating what I wrote above. Your system will not be stable otherwise.

[@recordsofbas]

Um my ram is rated for 3600mhz but it’s running at 2133mhz and whenever I click on auto to try to change it, nothing happens like I can’t change anything!!

[@Colby.1186]

Same

[@Tubtub1]

This video helped me. Thank you for taking the time to make a video !

[@josephamaral419]

This is the ONLY video that actually got me a stable "OC" on my ram. I honestly know nothing of memory timings.

[@Inf1ltrat1on]

Does this only oc one ram stick or both since my rams are on dual channel would really appreciate if anyone could get back quick such a great video helping even after 2 years

[@glitch1122]

*Please Help!* Even though my motherboard and cpu supports 3200mhz of ram speed still whenever i set it to 3200mhz or on even 3000mhz with 1.35-1.40 voltage my pc restarts itself whenever i start playing any games it starts normally everything goes fine till i do something extra..i have 8GB×2 Ram sticks of Corsair vengeance LPX 3600mhz.

[@deepakassasin682]

H410m motherboard ,i3 10100f processor ,ram 3200mhz but not able to use 🙄 plz help its set to 2666hz max. Any solution ?

[@PoisonSuspect_]

U put the voltage to 1.4 and now my pc doesn’t turn on that’s cool thank you

[@wydreyo]

How u fix

[@Reliyyy]

yeah either

[@coolbuddy6423]

this video is very cool, thanks i pushed my 1600 memory to 1866 with more performance on a z97x-ud3h motherboard from gigabyte.

[@zerve85]

Bro i was able to use xmp more stable now because of this. Lowered down a bit frequency from 3200 to 3133mhz. Compared to disabled xmp it only runs 2400mhz

[@glockeeonps1749]

How do you know what the dram voltage that your ram supports. Can you explain? I'm really confused on the voltage. Explanation please

[@vinzzsmoketv1604]

Same.question bruh.! I dunno if I can leave it as auto..

[@JonelKingas]

So what if i have 3200 mhz and in bios it says its 2133?? I can set x.m.p to profile 1 and everything fine it becomes 3200 but i want to set it manually how?

[@JustAGuy85]

OCCT is definitely the BEST mem tester out there. If you have unstable RAM, it'll find it in 10 seconds max.

[@malexmang4946]

I changed the voltage to 1.4 and speed to 2933. When I save and exit, I get to the windows log on. When I log in and check my ram speed in task manager, it says 2400mhz. Is task manager wrong or what?

[@malexmang4946]

@@HardwareHorizon I'll test it

[@chiune.3881]

I've literally never seen a more useful PC guide. Thank you.

[@jewelersofwhale]

Great video. For me the problem is Warzone. If you play with random squad the OC ram works fine, but when you invite friends to caldera it is a whole other thing. The game will instant crash if the ram is not 100% completly stable. :)

[@almmiron]

I have hyperfuryx 2400mhz, on a cheap z270 mobo (gigabyte z270-hd3) with i5 7500, play games on a gtx 10603gb. XMP does nothing. And i dont know how to start messing with overclock the memory.

[@DOVEDELS]

Was able to clock from 2400 to 3000 with single stick but now with dual cant do even 2800. The ram stick are almost the same just one model says FSE another FSEK, both same specs and 2400

[@xanuell]

Yo thank u, my game runs smoothly I still get random frame drops but ay it’s good new sub

[@xanuell]

@@frogs2041 rust

[@FNXDCT]

Thanks ! My ram is intel optimized and I guess xmp fails my ram.. thank’s to you I just applied my numbers from the sticker of my ram to same options and now it’s at it’s full speed but it boots, FINALLY ! XD

[@MrGalaxy906]

CS:GO is the worst for finding instability in CPU overclocking. Could run anything at 5.1Ghz on my FX 8350 but CS:GO would not have any of it lmao. And thanks for the video!

[@trviis]

5.1Ghz?? that must run like an oven lol

[@coows]

Instructions unclear, I cheated on my RAM.

[@SambitNayakchandan]

Hey thanks a lot bro ,I just upgraded my 2133mhz Corsair vengeance ram to 3000 mhz as I was very much confused with the ram settings in xmp profile .I had to manually setup miltiplexer as 30.00

[@SambitNayakchandan]

@When Shes A Lesbian yes it indeed did increased the fps .

[@alien_man1669]

thanks for the tips even though i have an ASSrock board. What i do with my ram is test with VR apps. Opening SteamVR instantly starts stuttering if im not 100% stable. You can test with steamVR performance test it steam tools if you dont have a VR setup. It works for fine tuning but not to force BSODs. I got my cruxial ballistix 2400 cl16 running at 3133 cl 17. 3200 drops performance off a cliff but sometimes boots. I dont know what it is with my asrock x470 gaming k4 but it likes to decide my ram timings are bad only after tons of testing. I figure its cause the ram is micron and not samsung or hynix but my friend has the same ram same board only he has a 2600x and i have a 2700x and i couldn't get his higher than 2666 stable so with that to compare im happy at least getting to 3133 but im still going to try and push it higher

[@deminybs]

I also have the asrock x470 gaming k4 with gskill ram and can only get to 3066 stable before battlefield 5 crashes on startup, anything higher and my system won't post. I also have the ryzen 2700 and a rtx 2080 that plays everything on ultra that I've tried so far so I guess i'll just be happy with 134mhz lower on ram speed

[@jamestor6700]

@@deminybs how much voltage are you using?

[@rubicel7920]

I have tried everything, but Windows and CPU Z keeps marking that they are in 2666, they do not come out, long ago if I managed to do it but it can no longer, I am in the F50 version of the BIOS

[@moltensapphire6751]

Thank you for your nice demonstration.

[@nx9868]

Thx for the helpful information. I m stupid af...was waiting for a window to open up when clicking on the diffrent settings LMAO. Didnt notice u could just typ it in. Hahaha

[@siltant9458]

omg same lmao i’m really dumb

[@factsoverfeelings1776]

I must have purchased trash ram. It wont boot at the XMP profile for 3000 Mhz either. I tried to get it to boot at 2666 Mhz and it did not work either. So I am stuck at 2133 Mhz. SMH

[@swifty1969]

I had the exact same problem with my old gigabyte z series 5yr old mobo (skylake 6700k), one day my mobo decided not to run my corsair lpx at 3000(xmp) The problem I believe lied with either my mobo or processor going bad because when I migrated my old memory to my new build (gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite/AMD 3700X), it worked like a charm. Like you, I was stuck with 2133 Mhz.

[@klikklak6099]

Tou kight have helped me i get my stick tomorrow bur they are 400 to fast and i wanted to manually bring it to the recommended setting to my cpu and i couldnt figure it out and there was no videos . I got a new verson but it looked similiar ill be trying tomorrow

[@MegaDante4]

Like you, I test the stability of the system with Rise of the Tomb Raider and Battlefield V, for some reason these two games do not like the least of instabilities, any little thing out of place will cause crashes in these two games, if later from overclocking I can play these 2 games for at least 40 minutes each and they don't crash so the overclock is completely stable, it doesn't matter if the overclock is on the ram, the cpu or the gpu, with these two games you instantly detect if the new configuration is stable or not.

[@minuce110]

why did benchmark tell me im clocked at 2133hz and im running below expectation tho ?

[@rmd116nwthwt2]

Same problem here, did you fix it?

[@chltmdwp]

Loving the old school quality!

[@maseffect6713]

In 1:30, how did you determine that a manual setting of 1.4v DRAM voltage was what to go with?

[@HardwareHorizon]

Mostly from temp sensors on the Ballistix Tactical Tracer RGB RAM. I tried to keep load temps below 60c and I actually was able to push 1.5v no problem. Personally, I'd push to 1.5v if I wanted to get the most overclocking out of my RAM and not worry about it. For others worried about damaging their kits, I felt like 1.4v was the mostly safe voltage point that gives you some legit overclocking experience, without being nearly as risky in the damage department. No overclocking can be guaranteed safe though.

[@nolaughing5087]

It set my timings to the moon

[@Clairelle1992]

Thank you dude, you solved one of my biggest problems. Have a nice day!

[@TheJohnDenim]

late 2021. I just got 32GB 8GB x4, 4000mhz ram. Even with XMP, 2666. After 1.4v.. 4000mhz. Sweet video past dude.. :)

[@Owndchilata]

Thanks so much for this. I was struggling for a long time

[@AZZOMY2010]

Thanks a lot I have 3200mhz ram and i used page up and page down keys to change frequency the maximum i get is 2400mhz my cpu is i7 7700 planning to change it so am ok now with this frequency.

[@russelldeterala6742]

How to get in that screen?

[@omp-skill3394]

Changed it to 33.33 bt it changed to 2400 which ks the lowest possible. Apparently it doesnt go behind 3000 which is mine

[@glennedward2201]

Ive been looking all over to see what Memory Multiplier Tweaker does. Even Gigabyte Didn’t add a description. I may just give it a try and see for myself the feature wasn’t in my previous bios. The Tweaker choices are 1, 2, 3, and 4. Ive read online that it can create more stability and assists in fine auto tuning. What each particular number does i have no idea. Then below this we have MEMORY ENHANCEMENT SETTINGS and the choice are as follows: 1.) AUTO 2.) RELAX OC 3.) ENHANCED STABILITY 4.) NORMAL 5.) ENHANCED PERFORMANCE 6.) HIGH FREQUENCY 7.) HIGH DENSITY 8.$ DDR-4500+ (mhz) As you can see we have more settings here and I understood that this also provides enhanced auto tuning. How they may interweave idk. It would be nice if there was more of a break down for each of these settings and how they may react to the other. Obviously 4500+ refers to high speed memory. The description says; ENHANCED STABILITY = Improved stability. Note: may impact overall performance. Then we have NORMAL = Standard settings. Enhanced performance = improved performance. note: may impact overall stability. This suggests to me that those settings above ENHANCED STABILITY which are ( Auto and Relax Oc), are going to be less aggressive than normal XMP. Its mostly clear I think and id suspect loose timing perhaps, lower frequency when using with XMP. This is essentially telling XMP what to do with certain undeclared setting for auto tuning. The mystery begins below this where there dowsnt appear to be any defined settings online that might say you need this particular type ram before using this setting. Im looking to see if i can optimize my T-Force and increase performance where i could benefit most without getting too hot in the setting’s. I suspect enhanced performance is my goto first. If anyone can add some clarity please do. I will try and follow ip after I’ve tested these features.

[@CAfakmykak]

From what I have heard, this is ok. But auto board settings are complete garbage, because the purpose of auto is just to get the system to work. It is not for maximum performance. Your ram speed may have gone up but your timings are probably loose as hell. I would recommend after you boot from auto settings. Try to tighten up the primary ram timings, and if you know enough try to tighten up the secondary timings. That will yield much better results.

[@TheBluBalls]

Yup auto timings are looser than a Kardashian.

[@aadamsalazar]

I have 2666 ballistix Ram 8gb. What should i over clock it to ?

[@doc4501]

Why does xmp profile 1 and auto not do anything? I have corsair vengeance lpx 2400 mhz 2x8, and a ryzen 3 2200g. I made sure to press save and exit setup. Any help???

[@nikajaparidze533]

help me i cant find this setting

[@cHaMp630]

This works but your timings will probably be so bad when you let the motherboard adjust it automatically that it'll probably run about the same or worse than stock settings.

[@Dule-Z]

you deserve a trophy sir

[@dillydilly3680]

What would be a good voltage for 16GB of 3200MHZ

[@vincentzhen2607]

1.4

[@jamestor6700]

@@vincentzhen2607 1.35 seems to be the standard for out of the box dimms at those speeds, mine managed to hit that speed with that level of voltage no problem

[@vincentzhen2607]

Kyle over clocking?

[@jamestor6700]

@@vincentzhen2607 yeah my original speed was 2666 at 1.2 volts and overclocked to 3200 at 1.35 volts

[@MrMiikeeeey]

Kyle was it stable at that

[@man_ishgupta8443]

Bro please help me out I have a gigabyte motherboard with a 3000mhz ram but when I check it in CPU z it shows it's only running in 1000mhz what should I do please help me....

[@strohhuttv8848]

Your ram work how much he need... If u play games or use high usage programs for editing videos or 3D stuff your ram will work at 3000mhz.

[@sonicwingnut]

Yup, finally got some RGB puke RAM @3000MHz - knocked voltage up from 1.35 to 1.4v on an ASUS TUF B350 board, upped the target frequency to 3200.. worked great.

[@pcgaming6485]

Thanks mate only video on here about same board and xmp as me

[@HeadofHoncho]

Thanks dude, I didn't want to download Ryzen master just to unlock my Ram Frequency

[@ramanjeetkaurdhillon9387]

I got a 3.6 gh cpu but it came overcoocker with 4.8 gz I found out the max speed is 5.1 gz but I’m not gonna mess around with it because it’s already high.

[@ramanjeetkaurdhillon9387]

Lol some words are spelt wrong

[@John-ft4hh]

Tht sick background music tho XD

[@tamodolo]

I have a corsair vengeance LPX 3200 and a ryzen 2700. It's unstable. any sugestion on how to fix? 2933 runs ok with 15-15-15-34 (the actual 3200 has 16-18-18-26)

[@siltant9458]

bro u just saved my life thank you so much

[@_RedsTech_]

This actually caused problems on my B450 Aorus M... Never again will I try to shortcut ram speed and timings. That was scary...

[@johnjohnson7128]

thanks for telling the truth and not just click bait dam are you the only one on youtube thanks a bunch

[@R3D1R3CT10N]

Thank you, this was way easier than I thought

[@HaydenH]

What do you mean it doesn’t work for Asrock? It works for me. 🙃

[@HaydenH]

@@HardwareHorizon I have updated bios. Maybe that's the problem.

[@mateusmms9]

Are these memories ( 2x8gb Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200MHz ) compatible with this motherboard?

[@elmundir]

Can you please explain why your methode is different with the XMP profile? why it s better? thanks for the video

[@zakedwards6977]

I am not sure what RAM you have but our clock times are the exact same.. F4-3000C16D-16GTZR ?

[@Quint_69]

GTA kept on crashing when I had an unstable XMP profile enabled, so yes that would probably be a good test.

[@hananwatchworld]

very helpful information but my system wont allowed me to get booting mode , always keep restarting and restarting until the system become to default again which is 2133Mhz :(

[@Droids_]

Same here

[@ravevanz4945]

Finally an easier way to DDR4 tuning. Great Video bruh and YES the Fire is finally lite...hahahaha. Btw turn down the back round music please :)

[@tefiksahin]

help this also for gaming with extra fps ? i have now only overklock mine i7 2600k from 3.40ghz to 4.2 ghz must i also overklock or change mine ram ghz or is that not inportant wit gaming ? Sorry for mine bad english

[@Mineingcreepers]

No. This kind of OC is more for speed of Start Up, and opening programs. You could see a little bump in FPS, but not enough to say it is beneficial to gaming. On a side note though, this could also speed up your Games latency (NOT internet Ping Latency). So your in game actions could be a little more in time with the games data transfers to your system.

[@HatedHatred]

So if my motherboard's stated "limit" is 2666mhz, but I wanna get 2x 3200mhz sticks of ram, I could still bump them up and beyond 2666mhz, run the test, and it'll more or less run fine?

[@joydeepmajumdar5492]

what uis the preferred voltage if a ram is overclocked from 3000 to 3200 mhz ??

[@HardwareHorizon]

Depends on the kit. Some may handle that jump without a voltage increase, others might be maxed out at 3000MHz.

[@coows]

The luck is called the silicone lottery.

[@Jona69]

Leave xmp on as a starting point, then up you frequencynand voltage.

[@gorkman5697]

sir please help me i have Apacer Panther Black-Gold 16GB (4*8GB) 3200Mhz CL16 DDR4 Gaming Ram (AH4U16G32C08Y7GAA-2) i have amd 5900x asus prime x 570p in bios memory frequencey i can choose 3333mhz my question is in bios ram voltage it shows 1.35 how can i make my ram goes higher than 3333mhz should i give 1.4 volt i am afraid to play with timing because last month i couldnt turn on the pc i had to send my assus motherboard to service can my ram be overclocked could you please help me how to do what to do please sorry about my poor english sir thank you

[@christopherwilliams2405]

so I have a set-up as follow CPU Intel® Core™ Coffee Lake i7-8700 Motherboard Gigabyte Z390 GAMING SLI ATX RAM ADATA XPG GAMMIX D10 (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3200 Mhz C16 Display Card Gigabyte GeForce® RTX 2070 Windforce 8GB GDDR6 SSD ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 PSU FSP RAIDER II Series 550W 80 Plus Silver Case Thermaltake Versa J24 TG ARGB ATX CPU Cooler Thermaltake Riing Silent 12 RGB Sync Edition CPU Cooler What votage and frequency should I try in the safe zone where it most possible won't lead to unboostable?

[@sethshaffer8592]

Hey there hound. I have 4 corsair DDR4 Dominator platinums at 4000mhz 16gb. Me being dumb looked wrong at the QVL list for my mobo. The ram is not supported, BUT I have managed to get it to work with 1.38v at 4000Mhz and mode 2. What is the safest voltage you would push those platinums? I believe I have had them to 1.42 before but get sketched out. Would really like to max out my mobo and get it to 4200mhz. I have 6 ML 120 pwm fans with full liquid cooling loop with fans at minimum speed fyi.

[@sethshaffer8592]

@@HardwareHorizon Thanks THH. I pushed it to 1.45 and found about 50 - 52C. Might consider 1.5 if temps are less than 60. I had no idea ram temps were safe at that temp. Thanks for the reply.