DDR4 Overclocking - Adjusting timings etc.

The GROOT I am

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Jun 10, 2016
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Hello everyone,

I have a question for you :)

As I am in love with OCing, been doing it my whole life with GPU and CPU I started to get interested in MEM overclocking too. Or well ... overclocking ... My DDR4 LPX Corsair 2x8gb run at 3200Mhz it is rated for at 16-18-18-36 2T CL with XMP profile at 1.35V.

I am more interested in tightening the timings. 16-18-18-36 2T seems sad to me. I'd like to know some good programs for MEM benchmarks to know the gain as I was able to get, for now, stable 16-16-16-28 2T at 3000 Mhz or 16-18-18-36 1T at 2666 Mhz. To be honest .. I was like "let's try what happens" and from all the possibilities I've tried these two were OK. If I try to lower the CL while also adjusting from 2T to 1T the PC won't boot. Or if I try to use it with higher frequency.

I'd like to hear opinions from some more experienced OCer what is better, if it's frequency or timings, if I should sacrifice frequency and timings to get 1T stable and so on. Also how to proceed with OCing the RAM the best way. If there is some kind of pattern to use. To be honest, I cannot find anything browsing the google so I really am just trying what comes to my mind when trying to figure out the combinations.

Thanks in advance!
 
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Unless you can tighten up the timings drastically at slower speeds, the XMP 3200MHz setting is going to be the fastest. Make sure you keep the memory at 1.35V when take it off XMP, or you're definitely not going to gain anything. You can download AIDA64, which is free to try for a month, to benchmark test your memory at different speeds.

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Unless you can tighten up the timings drastically at slower speeds, the XMP 3200MHz setting is going to be the fastest. Make sure you keep the memory at 1.35V when take it off XMP, or you're definitely not going to gain anything. You can download AIDA64, which is free to try for a month, to benchmark test your memory at different speeds.
 
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