How do you overclock RAM?

Discussion in 'Computer Hardware' started by Michaelflat, Jan 21, 2017.

  1. Michaelflat

    Michaelflat
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    I have absolutely no idea, most tutorials are old and confusing, and on my motherboard you cant over volt ram, i dont know if you can in any other motherboard but here is what i have

    32GB of Corsair Vengence ram@1600mhz
    Asus Z97-A

    Tutorials are on about CAS timings, i will post what they are on my system.

    Also is there any point in overclocking RAM (my CPU is at 4.4ghz -i5 4690k-)?
     
  2. BombBoy4

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    Almost always you should overclock ram when you overclock your Cpu, to remove any sort of bottleneck between them.

    There should be a setting saying "RAM speed" or something like that and you select in the drop down the speed you want your ram at.

    It requires a z170 MoBo
     
  3. SixSixSevenSeven

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    This is complete false
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    Overclocking CPU and not ram introduces no particular bottleneck or instability. Most people are also not bottlenecked by ram speed anyway leaving it pointless for most people to even buy the high frequency ram let alone overclocking it
     
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  4. Michaelflat

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    ok then, I dont know much about ram really other than more is better (to a point)
    You cant just change RAM Speed, it lets you but its the equivalent of increasing CPU clock speed without changing voltage
     
  5. Funky7Monkey

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    That's about right, and it's more than fast enough these days to not have to bother with overclocking, or buying faster RAM.
     
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