How do I overclock my Ram?

cascoh

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Hey guys, I bought myself a Ram kit of Corsair Vengeance Pro (1866) Im running an ASUS MAXIUMUS VI Hero (1150 Socket) and a i5 4670k @ Stock. I have been getting these tiny stutters recently when playing some of my games I mostly see it in CS:GO. I set an XMP profile in the bios and the dimms say 9-10-9-27 @ 1866 1.5v. But when I put the RAM to 1600 the problem was still there anyways. Will me upping the voltage from 1.5 to 1.65 help anything out? Kind of common sense that more power means more volts. I have done many things like CCleaner, Update Mobo Drivers, Update GPU Drivers, Disc Cleanup, Disc Defrag, Memtest for 50+ passes, Update Microsoft Visuals C++, Disabled Anti-Virus, also re install some fresh thermal paste on my CPU. Temps are fine on CPU and the motherboard. I also ran in cmd for a corrupt files and everything is clean. (I love to keep my PC clean and up to date) Anyways, would this maybe help to top the random hiccup stutters? PSU - 750w GPU - GTX 770 OC Edition 2GB and 1TB WD Caviar Black. Thanks guys.
P.S- If you have any other suggestion Ill feel free to try them out.
 
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I highly doubt its from the ram, that system should support that XMP profile. Why dont you run PRIME 95 for some hours to check if you pc is stable with the xmp profile, if you get some failure put the ram at 1600 to see if it fails again.

cascoh

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Well I mean my temps are fine, My hard drive is clean and always updated/defraged, Im sure my PSU (750w) can handle the rig as well so I am kinda running out of options.
 

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If I can remember it didnt stutter, Corsair Vengeance 1600 8gb. Why? This ram passed the Memtest on over 50+ passes.
 

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I highly doubt its from the ram, that system should support that XMP profile. Why dont you run PRIME 95 for some hours to check if you pc is stable with the xmp profile, if you get some failure put the ram at 1600 to see if it fails again.
 
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Unless you went up to 16GB, I don't see a reason for an upgrade -- so if the other was working fine, I'd use that, maybe try tweaking that, and return the new kit, to save time, money, and headache.
It may be a a tiny bit slower, but it'll be better than what you've got now, if it just simply doesn't stutter.