First time ram overclock

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I've never really tried to overclock my ram before but i think im quite happy with my results.
I have 2X8GB Trident x DDR3 with an XMP of 1866mhz
I just overclocked it to 2133mhz with timings of 9-9-10 27 @1.6v
Ran Passmark and go the following scores= Memory mark 3288
Database operations 129
Memory uncached 17743
Memory cached 35601
Memory write 12750
Memory threaded 29227
Memory Latency 19
Can i get a little feedback on what you think ?
 
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Any free performance is always good. :D

I've either been unlucky, or I'm just rubbish with memory overclocking as none of mine ever gave more than its stated speeds.
Even my current 3000mhz DDR4 refused to boot at 3200mhz with 1.5v
 
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Managed to get some more out of my memory got up to 2400mhz at cl10 10-11-12-32
Ran a couple of different benches all good apart from sandra on throughput getting an invalid score of 9.96pmts ?
Any idea what is wrong ?
 
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Managed to get some more out of my memory got up to 2400mhz at cl10 10-11-12-32
Ran a couple of different benches all good apart from sandra on throughput getting an invalid score of 9.96pmts ?
Any idea what is wrong ?

Use this to check for memory errors after you overclock.

https://www.techpowerup.com/memtest64/

If you get errors you need to increase the voltage, loosen timings or scale back the overclock.
 
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I don't think overclocking memory is worth the trouble, many computer stability issues are due to memory. Also in the main your just chasing tiny percent points. You only have to damage 1 memory cell and you can have random instability forever..

What I would do is after your computer is running for some time, take the back of your hand and feel the memory heat-spreaders, if you can feel anything that's above mildy warm it's two much heat and you should clock the memory back.

What you can do is increase the uncore speed of your intel CPU by say 200 Mhz, this will increase your cache memory and most situations give you more performance then overclocking memory.
 
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Overclocked my cpu to 5.2ghz stable and pulled it back to 4.9ghz for 24,7 not really want to touch the uncore, was just tinkering with the ram trying to see what i can get i thought i was doing okay at 2400mhz considering ive not touched the voltage and had no issues apart from the one test (sandra) ,passmark memory test gained another 160 points.
Just took the overclock off there and tried the normal xmp profile and get the same result on sandra and realised i disabled the paging file im pretty sure that the test measures data to the paging file and back.
Tried memtest no errors on the overclock !
 
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Just put the 2400mhz oc back on and tried userbench 88.9% on the memory. multicore @89% 31.1bg/s and single @72% 25.2 gb/s latency 92% 43.4ns.
 
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