Told my ram isn't as fast as it should be?

tomg126 · Oct 10, 2016

So i posted my speccy screenshot to another forum of my three year old build that i'd recently put a titan x pascal into from sli 780's:

http://imgur.com/a/d2bxE

And a user replied with:

'Your ram is stuck at 1333, go into bios and clock it to whatever your ram supports,maybe a bit more.Your welcome. '

The ram I have is:

16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro (2x8GB)

and my motherboard is:

Gigabyte Z87X UD4H

I have never overclocked anything or messed with stuff before, this was a prebuilt rig, I just upgraded the gpu last week, all I've ever done myself, can somebody help me out? Would it work? Would it make a big difference? How do i do it etc and is it safe to do?

Cheers!

AppleGwava · Oct 10, 2016

Its safe(as long as you dont mess with other stuff) jist go into bios then look for xmp profile and turn it on should be either xmp or intel extreme memory profile.That should do the trick

RCFProd · Oct 10, 2016

It's really as simple as going into the BIOS and enabling XMP profile most likely. Yes, it can make a big difference, especially on a reasonable amount of 2016 games.

tomg126 · Oct 10, 2016

Thanks guys, so i don't have to manually set a speed or anything?

tomg126 · Oct 10, 2016

and any ideas why my ram hasn't been at full speed? i've never messed with it, is it something i should have done when i bought it three years ago lol

SkyNetRising · Oct 10, 2016

tomg126 :

Do you even know, how many different Corsair Vengeance Pro models are out there?

http://www.corsair.com/en/memory/vengeance-pro-series

Post screenshot from CPU-Z memory and spd sections.

tomg126 · Oct 10, 2016

SkyNetRising :

oh god sorry, i'm really not au fait with this sort of thing. I'll have a look after work, cheers for the tip!

tomg126 · Oct 10, 2016

Just read something about having to watch out for 'turbo boost' when enabling XMP?

tomg126 · Oct 10, 2016

RCFProd :

any idea about this turbo boost thing i need to be aware of...?

Tradesman1 · Oct 10, 2016

By default the DRAM will go to the mobos default, go into BIOS and enable XMP, select profile 1. Then in Win check with the free app CPU-Z, in the memory tab - it will show the true freq you are running at, then take that x 2 to find effective - i.e. if it shows 800 then you are at 1600 as it is DOUBLE data rate (DDR)

tomg126 · Oct 10, 2016

Tradesman1 :

ok will do! and this won't damage anything etc? read on another site that if turbo boost is enabled then doing this could reduce the lifespan of the board / cpu greatly?

Tradesman1 · Oct 10, 2016

No, turbo boost has been around for years, I've never turned it off in any my rigs or in my client builds and I use fast DRAM in all the builds I do (some of my rigs in sig)

tomg126 · Oct 10, 2016

Tradesman1 :

thanks man i'll give it a shot later and report back!

Tradesman1 · Oct 10, 2016

C U then

tomg126 · Oct 10, 2016

Tradesman1 :

here it is after going to profile 1?

http://imgur.com/a/Pp5JP

Bit higher than 800! safe...??

Tradesman1 · Oct 10, 2016

Yes

Looks like 1866 sticks

tomg126 · Oct 10, 2016

Tradesman1 :

cool!

just out of interest....what sort of performance improvements would I be looking at? I mean...faster loading times etc or what? As I was happy enough with what it was at before!

RCFProd · Oct 10, 2016

Better performance in some games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er_Fuz54U0Y

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