XMP or Manual

paradisiac · 25 Mar 2012 at 23:11

hi, after doing my rebuild I have noticed that my ram doesn't seem to support XMP. when I swap out the 2500k for an IB processor, would I be better also getting some XMP supported RAM to make overclocking easier, or is manually setting the RAM the recommended way?

beejjacobs · 25 Mar 2012 at 23:30

paradisiac said:
hi, after doing my rebuild I have noticed that my ram doesn't seem to support XMP. when I swap out the 2500k for an IB processor, would I be better also getting some XMP supported RAM to make overclocking easier, or is manually setting the RAM the recommended way?

Don't think there's a difference manually setting the RAM to it's rated settings?

paradisiac · 25 Mar 2012 at 23:37

beejjacobs said:
Don't think there's a difference manually setting the RAM to it's rated settings?

ok, wasn't sure as from memory when I did have XMP compatible there were 2 profiles, one obvs cant of been the rated settings, so wasn't sure if, for overclocking, that would be preferred than guessing.

beejjacobs · 25 Mar 2012 at 23:52

paradisiac said:
ok, wasn't sure as from memory when I did have XMP compatible there were 2 profiles, one obvs cant of been the rated settings, so wasn't sure if, for overclocking, that would be preferred than guessing.

I think it's just as easy to change the settings manually

wazza300 · 26 Mar 2012 at 00:25

you can improve on xmp timings too usually,esp if xmp sets command rate at 2t which would be slower than 1t,maybe one or two clicks more vtt or dram voltage but better imo