Cheater's Guide to RAM Overclocking - Easy Frequency Boost

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[HardwareHorizon]

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.

[MrPirateking]

This video feels like it's from 2013

[KhaiNadzmi]

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

[ravevanz]

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 :)

[Owndchilata]

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

[pcgaming]

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

[gizmoriderfulye]

That way done, your timings will be slow as fuck though. But yea can confirm it works

[itszerux]

I don t have the EZ overlock Tuner what can i do

[samvanderbruggen]

When i put it on profile 1 my game and pc keeps crashing what to do

[agungwiratama]

I have Mobo h110m-ds2 Gigabyte, can i do that?

[constantinenikolaidis]

unorthodox way to test stability but I like it : ) I never understand why gigabyte allowing to enable XMP Profile and Manual Set mode at the same time, whats the point to enable the profile then set it to manual, instant of using manual sets and disable the XMP do you have any idea why?

[MODHIIK]

They say that on boards from aorus, the memory does not overclock over 3800 MHz. Is it true? For I bought myself an aorus pro p

[casmx]

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.

[etestg]

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.

[thomaslijnen]

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

[James]

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

[vcr]

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

[IXeRios]

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

[shayeladshayelad]

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