disabling XMP and manually overclocking further ?

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bingo-993

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I have a 16 gb 3000 mhz rated ram now this overclock is with XMP i thought why not go higher then a rated speed for my RAM and many others! i dont know if im understanding the idea very well, should i try manually overclocking to reach maybe 3400? or more if its possible?
if i decided to try should i care more about latency or mhz for gaming performance?

is it like find the highest mhz you can reach with the most safe voltages and dont care about latency just push it higher until you get stable? RAM overclocking is difficult i think.
 
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I make the test on a 6700k processor when i purchase it and i seriouly doubt that i could get a stable 1-2fps improvement over the board and probably a lot could even be a placebo effect or just error in the test run.

If you where using a igpu on a Amd i would said that give it a try but on your sistem i would use the best XMP set and stop bothering.

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Depends on what software you are running on your computer. Some applications favor latency, others bandwidth. You can't have both, so you're going to have to make the decision which is more important.

I would suspect that for gaming, latency is the most important, however CPUs such as Ryzen, and you don't happen to mention just what platform you're running, tend to grant higher FPS to higher frequency memory.

In the end, no matter what route you go, you should do thorough benchmarks both before you change settings, and after, especially in the software you're hoping to see gains in.
 
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You could?, yes and it's possible you could get better values if the RAM is a quality one, but just check that you left the values at a stable ones (that not only boot, but dont get crashes on several hours test)



http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/299012-30-latency-speed

It's really a trade off, just dont expect a huge (even a mensurable) improvement.



Usually a higher mhz means also higher (and worse) latency, it's a tradeoff.



Ohh, it's very similar that a Cpu overlock, but you instead two "values or families of values" (clock/voltage) you have 3 (clock, voltage and latency) to work with... is like the old times when you plays with bus speed and cpu multipplier..

Just an advice, dont forget that on some modern intel cpus the voltage regulator is *inside the cpu die*, not on the MB, a very high voltage also means more heat for the cpu and even could burn the cpu for extreme values (like happends on 6600s cpus with DDR3 MBs).
 
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i read before about the tradeoff idea that both bandwidth and latency work together on the speed of the ram, but i thought maybe one of them is more important for gaming performance(i think it was something about AMD i read). im on an intel platform 7700k, and the ram is corsair lpx cl15 3000mhz
do you think its even worth it trying to go any higher?
 
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juanrdp

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I make the test on a 6700k processor when i purchase it and i seriouly doubt that i could get a stable 1-2fps improvement over the board and probably a lot could even be a placebo effect or just error in the test run.

If you where using a igpu on a Amd i would said that give it a try but on your sistem i would use the best XMP set and stop bothering.

 
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