RAM overclocking

RichH · 25 Apr 2013 at 21:49

Hey Guys,

I have never tampered with RAM overclocking until tonight.

Am I better off with:

1600 9 9 9 24 (stock)

or

1866 10 10 9 24

??

Thanks in advance.

RichH · 25 Apr 2013 at 21:51

Hmmm,

Overcloked settings fail prime95. Perhaps I'll just stick with stock.

I understand giving memory a voltage bump is a bad idea?

8 Pack · 25 Apr 2013 at 22:02

That memory is not designed for overclocking mate. So I would just leave it at stock as timings would need relaxing too much to be worth it.

RichH · 25 Apr 2013 at 22:08

Ok thanks.

It did start to seem a bit fruitless after 10 mins or so!

Do you see any worthwhile gains from OCing ram? Is it something to consider when buying Ram in the future?

8 Pack · 25 Apr 2013 at 22:12

I certainly do for my uses. It really does depend on what you use your PC for as to the benefits of RAM overclocking. Lerning how to overclock RAM does teach you a lot about a certain format or platform in that sense its very worthwhile.

RichH · 25 Apr 2013 at 22:36

Perhaps I'll get better ram next time then. I'll probably be doing another build in a couple of months when Haswell comes out.

What is the best on the market at the mo for overclocking?

setter · 26 Apr 2013 at 00:06

8 Pack said:
That memory is not designed for overclocking mate. So I would just leave it at stock as timings would need relaxing too much to be worth it.

Agreed, i had 16gb of corsair vengeance lp. It even made clocking the cpu alone a bit trickier. Dropped down to 8gb, cpu clocked fine to 4.5ghz, the vengeance lp wouldnt clock diddly squat, it needed 1.575 vdimm to do it's rated 1600mhz 9-9-9-24. Sold the remaining 8gb and got some sammy green, 2133mhz, 9-10-10-22 with a little bit of tweaking, same voltage as the vengeance.

eagle2508 · 27 Apr 2013 at 00:14

Samsung Green, I just purchased 16GB from OCuk and love it!

9.9.9.25 at 1.4v 1866mhz and from what I've heard it'll go a lot higher than that with a little more voltage and relax the settings a little.

tronath · 29 Apr 2013 at 05:37

If you want good performance from integrated graphics, you'll need higher memory speeds, rather than lower latencies. I use overclocked sammies too & get 10-10-10-28-1T @ 2133 1.45v