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*** The Official Alder Lake owners thread ***

Kelt said:
Obviously can only speak for myself, my 12700K/MSI 690 A-PRO DDR4 runs an xmp profile of 3600Mhz without issue.
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Thanks. Yeh that is the sort of speed i was thinking of. I don't want anything too crazy. Rock solid stability is more important to me.

I am a little concerned 3000mhz may act as a bottleneck a bit (but likely will only affect some applications).
 
Jono8 said:
Thanks. Yeh that is the sort of speed i was thinking of. I don't want anything too crazy. Rock solid stability is more important to me.

I am a little concerned 3000mhz may act as a bottleneck a bit (but likely will only affect some applications).
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I doubt you'll see much change, you said yourself that your benchmark scores are on the money.

However, I just splurged out extra dosh with my new build on aesthetics, so I fully understand where you're coming from with regard to looks. :)
 
Kelt said:
However, I just splurged out extra dosh with my new build on aesthetics, so I fully understand where you're coming from with regard to looks. :)
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Haha, yeh. I think I'm trying to find an excuse to do it beyond aesthetics....when it is mainly for the aesthetics!

Stupid red heatsinks ruining everything!
 
Been playing around with bclk tuning mainly because the igpu multi is limited to 42x and the only way to get higher frequency is to use blck which impacts: core, cache, mem controller, mem frequency, ecores and igpu. A nice bump in performance on the igpu as 5fps more in an area of Minecraft i've been using to test. Nice free bump on core and mem as well. No additional voltages.

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HT is off because minecraft performance tanks with HT.
 
mrk said:
Very decent! Get those suckers in and running :cool:
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In and up and running with, seemingly so far, zero issues. The BIOS picked them up at 4000Mhz in XMP mode instantly, and after a successful boot etc I changed them over to Gear 1. I didn't bother with their BIOS made for me to test the nwith as so far they are working fine.
Good to see that the XMP mode picks them up great.
I'll let Gigabyte know.

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@Robert896r1 looking good, as you note a nice boost without compromising stability.
 
Looks like if I ever come across 4000MHz DDR4 at a good price then I have some scope to upgrade then although just how beneficial will it be over 3600MHz with the same timings? I guess by teh time that time arrives I will be ready to go to DDR5 anyway so may as well just stay where I am with 3600 :p
 
@mrk agree with your thoughts on "is there a point". I reckon there is next to nothing in terms of real life differences worth noting. I just happen to have the sticks, not bought for the purpose of "upgrade". At least they work and, just as importantly, the board / Gigabyte supports them fine with zero issues - that is good to know having seen videos noting several board vendors seemingly having issues with faster RAM.

As for changing any of the default timings, the world of RAM overclocking has always been avoided. No particular reason, just tended to OC the CPU and then leave it, not realising any potential gains are to be had...?
 
mrk said:
Looks like if I ever come across 4000MHz DDR4 at a good price then I have some scope to upgrade then although just how beneficial will it be over 3600MHz with the same timings? I guess by teh time that time arrives I will be ready to go to DDR5 anyway so may as well just stay where I am with 3600 :p
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Depends on how much you want, picked up some pretty cheap 2x 32GB DDR4 4000MHz G.Skill kits the other day ~£4.34 per Gigabyte. :)
 
Micron E-die, so basically the same as £50 set of Crucial Ballistix (well the older stuff) :D

You can easily tighten those timings, and get some better performance with a little more voltage.
 
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