How do I cheack my RAM speed?

[gojo satoryu]

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[Sapph]

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should I wait till I get ryzen?

Well, you can make yourself familiar with overclocking the RAM, but on Intel it requires a Zxxx board.

[gojo satoryu]

whats a-xmp?

[_I_]

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whats a-xmp?

ram profiles that set speed, voltage, timings for the dimms

pick one and its sets it all for you

[gojo satoryu]

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whats a-xmp?

ram profiles that set speed, voltage, timings for the dimms

pick one and its sets it all for you

I thought thats how you do it, just pick one

[_I_]

the ram has profiles

if you select the xmp profile in bios, it will set the rest for you

bios defaults to 2133 with high timings to work with all ram
works enough to get by til you set it to its optimal specs

[Sapph]

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ram profiles that set speed, voltage, timings for the dimms

pick one and its sets it all for you

I thought thats how you do it, just pick one

A-XMP is XMP (eXtreme Memory Profile) preset for AMD. On Intel it's just simply XMP.

Any memory that has advertised speed of higher than 2133Mhz, will have XMP profile, at which it will run if it is enabled from BIOS. But that will only make it run at the advertised speed. Which could be just 2400Mhz or 2666Mhz. So overclocking manually would still be good as you would be able to get higher speeds (and lower timings when you get to that part, but that's whole other thing and comes after you get familiar with just the clockspeed)

[gojo satoryu]

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I thought thats how you do it, just pick one

A-XMP is XMP (eXtreme Memory Profile) preset for AMD. On Intel it's just simply XMP.

Any memory that has advertised speed of higher than 2133Mhz, will have XMP profile, at which it will run if it is enabled from BIOS. But that will only lt you run at the advertised speed. Which could be just 2400Mhz. So overclocking manually would still be good.

Should I wait for ryzen or do it now with Intel

[_I_]

you can check cpuz spd tab to get the xmp specs for each dimm

good place to start
just raising its multi wont help much if its timings are slowing it down more

[Sapph]

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Should I wait for ryzen or do it now with Intel

Well, as I said, you need a Z board for that on Intel. On AMD all boards can do it.

[gojo satoryu]

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Should I wait for ryzen or do it now with Intel

Well, as I said, you need a Z board for that on Intel. On AMD all boards can do it.

Ok so ill wait till I get ryzen, btw would that mobo https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FWVJSHC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 fit Nova Bitfenix?

[Sapph]

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Ok so ill wait till I get ryzen, btw would that mobo https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FWVJSHC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 fit Nova Bitfenix?

Nova can fit mATX and ATX size motherboards, so yes.

[gojo satoryu]

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Ok so ill wait till I get ryzen, btw would that mobo https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FWVJSHC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 fit Nova Bitfenix?

Nova can fit mATX and ATX size motherboards, so yes.

Thank you

[Raoul]

A good place to look at what ram is best for a specific cpu is userbenchmarks site, search for your cpu and check the best scores for it where you can select a system and see the ram used.

Setting XMP is good enough to stay on the safe side but if you do wish to play around with it and try for oc use maxxmem to test it each time and save a screeny if you are able to boot at all. But really only the best ram like the corsair dominator platinums can be overclocked nicely without much headache but you can just check reviews on a specific set of ram and get an idea of the overclock in there. GL

[IKronosSTAR]

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Is it NB Frequency or DRAM Frequency?

Technically, both. But DRAM is what you will mainly look at.

Also:

DRAM frequency x 2 = the effective speed of the RAM.

1200Mhz x 2 = 2400Mhz.

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

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Does it show exactly 1000? Or about 1066.5?
Because being roughly exactly 1000, isn't right. But 1066.5 means it is running at 2133Mhz.
This is the lowest normal speed for DDR4.

So you would look at 2133Mhz benchmarks.

About 1066.5. What is NB Frequency then?

I have Corsair 3466 MHz CL 16 RAM and a Ryzen 7 2700X which AMD list that 2933 MHz RAM speed for but standard on the ASUS X470-F Strix motherboard I get 2133 MHz too which is the standard speed for DDR4.

I kinda assume turning on DCOP/XMP and choosing frequenzy 2933 MHz should run at pretty decent settings but I don't know. Just setting frequency 2933 MHz?

Personally I've set mine manually. Which remind me that now they may not be because I upgraded the BIOS and that would explain why I've felt games was a bit slower even though I have crap graphics.