Can RAM be overclocked?

Timstertimster · Apr 20, 2013

I just bought a couple 4GB sticks and the description makes it sound like I could OC the speed from 1333 to 1500.

http://www.geil.com.tw/products/show/id/310

Can anyone please help me understand if that's right? Do I just increase voltage or is there more to it? Would it even be worth it in actual use?

I'm not super experienced but can find my way around BIOS settings.

Oh, and my CPU is AMD so no XMP profiles for me

Thanks.

jackson1420 · Apr 20, 2013

I have honestly never seen 1500 MHz advertised. OCing is not difficult process.

A quick Google search with I'm Feeling Lucky yielded this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/254402-29-memory-overclocking-guide-links

Google ftw?

ihsaan96 · Apr 20, 2013

You can overclock it easily but overclock to 1600Mhz not 1500Mhz

inzone · Apr 20, 2013

What you do is go into the bios of your motherboard and select the XMP Profile, this will automatically set the ram for the settings that are pre-programed into the ram. You won't have to make any other changes. Of course since you don't have an Intel CPU then you don't have the XMP option.

What you can do instead since it has already been tested at those XMP Profile settings is change the ram speed to 1600mhz. If there is any trouble with running it at that speed then you can add a bit of voltage, but I don't think that you will have to. What motherboard do you have?

Overclocking ram does not give you as much performance increase as a CPU or video card would. So going from 1333mhz to 1600mhz will be a small increase, to go from 1333mhz to 2133mhz would be noticeable.

ihsaan96 · Apr 20, 2013

inzone :

What you do is go into the bios of your motherboard and select the XMP Profile, this will automatically set the ram for the settings that are pre-programed into the ram. You won't have to make any other changes. Of course since you don't have an Intel CPU then you don't have the XMP option.

What you can do instead since it has already been tested at those XMP Profile settings is change the ram speed to 1600mhz. If there is any trouble with running it at that speed then you can add a bit of voltage, but I don't think that you will have to. What motherboard do you have?

Overclocking ram does not give you as much performance increase as a CPU or video card would. So going from 1333mhz to 1600mhz will be a small increase, to go from 1333mhz to 2133mhz would be noticeable.

His motherboard won't be able to run 2133Mhz anyway

Timstertimster · Apr 20, 2013

inzone :

I have a gigabyte 87LMT USB3
http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4305#ov

If OCing is as easy as setting speed to 1600 and voltage to 1.5 in the BIOS, then what's it gonna hurt if I did this? Thanks.

inzone · Apr 20, 2013

You can set the ram speed to 1600mhz and you won't have to touch the voltage because it's not that much of an overclock and the voltage will be at 1.5v. Your motherboard won't go much higher anyways.

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