Any gaming performance in overclocking memory

bakes0310

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As title is there any increase in games frame rates if you overclock your memory.
Ive never tried apart from put my memory on xmp. What does that even mean and do btw?
 
Depends on the game but you won't see much difference, maybe an extra 1-5% at most depending on the scenario.
Not worth bothering much with unless you're really squeezing your hardware to the limits and need that extra 2fps.
 
You'd only really see the difference if you were bench marking.
That said if you managed to OC considerably, depending on the game you may see a small gain but not noticeable to the eye.
 
Haven't tested so much recently but in the past I've only ever seen gains that are even vaguely worth talking about in games when going from the slowest generic sticks to top of the range highest performance sticks - anything else is <5% difference in the vast majority of cases.

Personally unless your going for benchmark records I've never really seen any reason to overclock RAM and typically its one of the most sensitive components to increases in heat or voltage with premature degredation.

I usually buy fairly high end stuff just because it takes that out of the equation with regards to overclocking the rest of the system.
 
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I think the only game you see a noticeable difference without checking your frame rates all the time is minecraft. Seriously, that thing loves faster RAM.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
I think the only game you see a noticeable difference without checking your frame rates all the time is minecraft. Seriously, that thing loves faster RAM.
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Minecraft is a bit of an odd beast - not only the underlying platform in terms of java, etc. but last time I looked at it it did some quite heavy on the fly compression/decompression of the voxel data hence CPU and RAM can affect its performance quite a bit.
 
What system?

AMD FX -not really.

AMD APU's - Yes!! the IGP relies on fast system RAM just like a GFX card has fast RAM.

Haswell - 8pack says it does, makes everything more "efficient" with 1866Mhz being the minimum.
 
PhoenixUK said:
you should be able to OC that to 1866 without even touching the volts :)
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:) k, thanks. Had it running at 1333 since I bought it because of my i3-2120 :(. Got my 4770k now, just saving for the Z87X-OC (should hopefully have it by the end of November).
 
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