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2020/11/16 01:08:10 (permalink)
So this thread is an extension of one I made a while ago when I first delved in to this subject, located on another forum (here: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1035415-i-went-deeeep-on-ram-overclocking-today-advice-discuss/ ) 
 
I recently, in preparation for the 3080 I got last month, took this back up & really went at it to try & get stability & speed this time.
 
At present, I'm at these settings & have not had a single issue with them in over a month of gaming, only had one full on BSOD that was driver related:
 

 
I'm at 1.42V on the RAM, 1.15V on VCCIO, & 1.2V on VCCSA.
 
I'd like this to be an all-inclusive RAM overclocking threat, so AMD folks are welcome here too (I'll be going AMD myself next build, but that's a year off or so).
 
One thing I found quite interesting, 4000MHz on my RAM was stable at those settings with lower voltages across the board (1.4V RAM, 1.1V VCCIO, 1.15V VCCSA), with my CPU at stock, but with my 9900K at 5GHz, it needed a bump on each voltage to get stability & not crash during benchmarks/gaming.
I also found that, as Buildzoid's video indicates, even a motherboard that's fully compatible with a certain RAM kit like mine is with mine, sometimes sets secondary timings wrong.  After a BIOS update, which I did before a Windows image to my M.2 main drive I'm using now, it actually set some secondary timings very wonky, and one of the two I couldn't even set manually because the number I needed to use was "out of range", but setting the one manually (tWTR_S) actually made the other (tWTR_L) fix itself.
 
I'm thinking about pushing for 16-16-16 & seeing if I can actually get it stable at 4000MHz, that would be a sweet little overclock at "stock" timings for the RAM sticks.  
 
For those dealing with Z390 &/or a 9900K setup, generally accepted safe voltages for VCCIO & VCCSA are about 1.3V max, the lower the better of course - and RAM I believe it's around 1.5V max with 1.45V being on the safer side, for daily use.
 
Other general rules I've learned:
 
The lower you can go on tRFC the better, it is one timing that has a lot of effect on performance (second mostly to CL & Command Rate of course)
The higher you can go on tREFI & not get errors, the better
tRRD_L should also be twice TRRD_S (if it's not that might be causing your issues, motherboards set things weird sometimes)
 
There's a few others but I can't think of them right now cuz I've been up too long.
post edited by Dabadger84 - 2020/11/16 01:13:33

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2020/11/16 21:26:31 (permalink)
    Best to always run benchmarks between changing memory settings. Just because it boots doesn't mean it's stable. But most importantly, just because it's stable doesn't mean tighter timings = more performance! 
     
    Running DDR3 on Haswell, and all the Zen 3 news had me itching to mess with the hardware again. Figured out how to get the 1T command rate working without reducing the frequency, then began reducing timings. But I saw better performance at 8-10-10-24-200 1T than I did at 8-10-10-20-180 1T, and it turns out the memory access latency actually went up with the tighter timings. Buildzoid recommends SuperPi 1M runs, but I also used AIDA64's memory latency benchmark as well.
     



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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2020/11/16 21:34:00 (permalink)
    kougar
    Best to always run benchmarks between changing memory settings. Just because it boots doesn't mean it's stable. But most importantly, just because it's stable doesn't mean tighter timings = more performance! 
     
    Running DDR3 on Haswell, and all the Zen 3 news had me itching to mess with the hardware again. Figured out how to get the 1T command rate working without reducing the frequency, then began reducing timings. But I saw better performance at 8-10-10-24-200 1T than I did at 8-10-10-20-180 1T, and it turns out the memory access latency actually went up with the tighter timings. Buildzoid recommends SuperPi 1M runs, but I also used AIDA64's memory latency benchmark as well.
     





    Very true, one golden rule for RAM timing testing - it's always "stable" until it isn't, so run as many tests as you can.  I typically run at least an hour of AIDA64's RAM test, then a full system stress test, full suite of 3DMark benchmarks, and some MemTest as well for at least an hour, and even then, if it passes all of that "it's stable" but it could end up erroring out if it heats up too much during gaming, which is why I have a fan sitting on top of my sticks to ensure they stay happy (since mine are Samsung B-Die, cooler temps the better).
     
    I had an old kit in my X79/3930K system that I never really messed with but it was CL9 2133MHz out of the box with 1T.  Ran at 1.65V though, but having 16GB back then was nice.
     
    There's also the whole Daisy Chain vs T-Topology thing, with a lot of Z390 boards having t-Topology there's an entire crop of people out there that may be "missing out" on system & memory performance by only having 2 sticks instead of 4... which we've now learned is also a thing on Zen 3 apparently too, so that's neat, means higher end 4x??GB kits will be even more sought after and perhaps more popular & made more by manufacturers.
    I got my kit back when they memory prices were sky high, it's about $150 cheaper now than it was when I bought it lol

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2020/11/22 14:31:15 (permalink)
    Thank you for sharing! I also recently stumbled upon this memory overclocking guide which I found to be generally very education on RAM in general as well. 

    https://github.com/integr...r/DDR4%20OC%20Guide.md
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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/08 14:39:36 (permalink)
    *casts ressurection on the thread*
     
    So I'm lookin' to get my RAM all tuned up... found some settings for what's supposed to be a similar Samsung B-Die CL14 3600MHz 2x16GB kit on Hardware Unboxed video... but their settings don't work for me, they didn't disclose memory voltage or SoC voltage though, so I've been fiddling with that.
     
    Here's what my kit runs stock:
     

     
    The only timings I've manually set are tRAS, tRC, tREF (to 312/320 depending on the speed I'm running) and tFAW to 44.
     
    At 3600 I run the stock 1.45V, at 3800 I can run the same timings at 1.5V and it's stable enough to pass basic stability testing.

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/08 15:22:54 (permalink)
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    *casts ressurection on the thread*
     
    So I'm lookin' to get my RAM all tuned up... found some settings for what's supposed to be a similar Samsung B-Die CL14 3600MHz 2x16GB kit on Hardware Unboxed video... but their settings don't work for me, they didn't disclose memory voltage or SoC voltage though, so I've been fiddling with that.
     
    Here's what my kit runs stock:
     
    The only timings I've manually set are tRAS, tRC, tREF (to 312/320 depending on the speed I'm running) and tFAW to 44.
     
    At 3600 I run the stock 1.45V, at 3800 I can run the same timings at 1.5V and it's stable enough to pass basic stability testing.


     
    Best place to start is with DRAM Calculator to get a usually solid baseline and then tweak & tune from there. A good source of information: https://github.com/integralfx/MemTestHelper/blob/master/DDR4%20OC%20Guide.md
     
    I would aim for 3800mclk/1900fclk, seems to be the most realistic target for Zen3. You can shave another ~3-4ns off your latency that way from your 3600/1800 58.9ns result. Looks like you have B-Die so that should be easily do-able. 4000/2000 seems quite rare but maybe your 5950x is a golden one, tried yet?





     
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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/08 22:03:22 (permalink)
    degenerate
     
    Best place to start is with DRAM Calculator to get a usually solid baseline and then tweak & tune from there. A good source of information: https://github.com/integralfx/MemTestHelper/blob/master/DDR4%20OC%20Guide.md
     
    I would aim for 3800mclk/1900fclk, seems to be the most realistic target for Zen3. You can shave another ~3-4ns off your latency that way from your 3600/1800 58.9ns result. Looks like you have B-Die so that should be easily do-able. 4000/2000 seems quite rare but maybe your 5950x is a golden one, tried yet?



    I actually haven't tried 4000 RAM / 2000 FCLK yet, but given that my IMC literally won't even let me run 1900 or 1833 on FCLK with 4 sticks installed (and that was with 1.15V SoC & up to 1.6V on the RAM), I'm pretty sure my memory controller is the weak line in my CPU. I'll have to give it a shot & see if it can pass even basic benchmarks at some point.  Not messin' with it tonight though, last night's overclocking/benchmarking session was fun but I'm taking the night off from that stuff.
     
    For some reason I don't have info on AIDA64's memory bench with 1900/3800 even though I've tested it pretty extensively with 2 sticks installed.
     
    One thing I really want to do is test game-style benchmarks (and actual game benchmarks) with 4 sticks vs 2 & see if there's any difference - if not I'll probably resell the 2nd kit since it makes it impossible to run higher than 1800/3600 with the current AGESA at least.
     
    I swear I have a screenshot of 55.6ns somewhere but I cannot find it... it was at 3800 CL14 RAM, 1900 FCLK I believe.  Can't remember if said settings were stable or not though.
     
     

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/09 16:35:38 (permalink)
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    degenerate
     
    Best place to start is with DRAM Calculator to get a usually solid baseline and then tweak & tune from there. A good source of information: https://github.com/integralfx/MemTestHelper/blob/master/DDR4%20OC%20Guide.md
     
    I would aim for 3800mclk/1900fclk, seems to be the most realistic target for Zen3. You can shave another ~3-4ns off your latency that way from your 3600/1800 58.9ns result. Looks like you have B-Die so that should be easily do-able. 4000/2000 seems quite rare but maybe your 5950x is a golden one, tried yet?



    I actually haven't tried 4000 RAM / 2000 FCLK yet, but given that my IMC literally won't even let me run 1900 or 1833 on FCLK with 4 sticks installed (and that was with 1.15V SoC & up to 1.6V on the RAM), I'm pretty sure my memory controller is the weak line in my CPU. I'll have to give it a shot & see if it can pass even basic benchmarks at some point.  Not messin' with it tonight though, last night's overclocking/benchmarking session was fun but I'm taking the night off from that stuff.
     
    For some reason I don't have info on AIDA64's memory bench with 1900/3800 even though I've tested it pretty extensively with 2 sticks installed.
     
    One thing I really want to do is test game-style benchmarks (and actual game benchmarks) with 4 sticks vs 2 & see if there's any difference - if not I'll probably resell the 2nd kit since it makes it impossible to run higher than 1800/3600 with the current AGESA at least.
     
    I swear I have a screenshot of 55.6ns somewhere but I cannot find it... it was at 3800 CL14 RAM, 1900 FCLK I believe.  Can't remember if said settings were stable or not though.
     
     


     
    With Zen3 it's definitely worth just running the 2 dimms @ higher FCLK, significant latency gains from each 100mhz increase there. Latency is king as far as gaming performance is concerned, benching as well. I can boot and run 1933/2000 "stable" but system throws WHEA's... hoping one day with further BIOS improvements I can get it WHEA-free, for now I'm satisfied at 1900fclk error-free.
     
    I'm still working on tuning but I've managed 54.8ns so far. With that kit you have, you should at least be able to match that (3800 CL14 @ 1.49V-1.5V). I think in order to get close to 50ns you need a 5800x or 5600x part.
     
    I saw your recent 15.6k PR score brother, great work I know how stoked you must be, well deserved!


     
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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/09 22:01:07 (permalink)
    I have a Asus crosshair VIII formula board, 5800x and 2 kits of 2 x 8GB CL14 3200 mem from GSkill samsung B-die(just bought/manufactured early this year, legit got sequential serial numbers between two kits)
    I am currently running 3800/1900 with 15 15 15 30 38 2t atm, and was stable around 1.42v or so, is it really alright to run 1.5v daily?
    I think it would let me drop to 14 14 14 28 or so on primary timings
    what all timings should I mess with for my kit of memory on 5800x?
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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/09 22:49:24 (permalink)
    There are kits that come with 1.5V as their default voltage - so I'd say 1.5V is completely safe for daily use.
     
    I can't recall specifically, but I'm pretty sure Buildzoid has said recently that 1.6V or lower is fine for daily use on DDR4 as long as you've got some airflow over your RAM - Samsung B-Die is the type of RAM that will legit run completely fine under 35-40C, but once you go over about 40C on the DIMM temps, they'll start throwing errors at settings they were stable at previously, according to him. 
     
    I'm currently considering returning the kit I can still return of my 2x16 and ordering one of these:
     
    DDR4-4000 CL15 1.5V 4x8 (ones I'd most likely get): https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232982?Item=N82E16820232982&quicklink=true
    DDR4-4000 CL17 1.35V 4x8: https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232772?Item=N82E16820232772 
     
    Honestly that CL15 kit is one I just found and even though it's price is actually insane for a 4x8 kit, I'm very tempted.
     
    I have 18 days left to return the one kit I can still return - I'm veeeeery tempted to go ahead & order the 4000/CL15 kit, test it out, then return either the 2x16 or both if they don't work out.
     
     
    I think what was brought up in a PM is on point, the kits I have now are counting as dual rank, so the IMC is losing it's mind at trying to run what it sees as 8-channels of memory at anything above 3600 with the FCLK at anything higher than 3800.
     
    degenerate
     
    With Zen3 it's definitely worth just running the 2 dimms @ higher FCLK, significant latency gains from each 100mhz increase there. Latency is king as far as gaming performance is concerned, benching as well. I can boot and run 1933/2000 "stable" but system throws WHEA's... hoping one day with further BIOS improvements I can get it WHEA-free, for now I'm satisfied at 1900fclk error-free.
     
    I'm still working on tuning but I've managed 54.8ns so far. With that kit you have, you should at least be able to match that (3800 CL14 @ 1.49V-1.5V). I think in order to get close to 50ns you need a 5800x or 5600x part.
     
    I saw your recent 15.6k PR score brother, great work I know how stoked you must be, well deserved!



    Thanks, I was very happy when I ran the first test with my resolution adjusted on the desktop & hit 15.3K before tuning the GPU upward, I knew it was gonna be some spicy meatballs.

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/09 22:58:10 (permalink)
    just think, gamers nexus and Jays2cents had a live stream competition with LN2 on these cards and were just barely breaking past the 17K point with over 700w power draw 
    these 15k scores on just custom loop cooling and aftermarket thermal pads/extra backside heatsinks is pretty good imo
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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/09 23:32:02 (permalink)
    I think if I had a high-clocking Intel 11th Gen setup with really high speed RAM, I could possibly hit 16K.  I may even be able to get close to 16K on my current system.  My next OC/bench session will be testing with one CCX disabled so I'll be running 8 cores instead of 16, to see how that effects my scores.  A few folks have suggested that might help... also, apparently Time Spy (regular, not Extreme) maxes out at 10 cores used & actually performs worse on higher core count CPUs, so I may try running 5 cores on each CCX for that.
     
    I'm genuinely curious if I can actually run 2000 FCLK, but I doubt it.  That's another thing I'll be trying.

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/12 20:25:47 (permalink)
    Is it feasible to run 3800 14 14 14 28 at 1.5v on Gskill b-die 3200 cl14 memory?
    Edit-I have 5800x on Asus CH8 Formula btw
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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/12 20:37:56 (permalink)
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    Is it feasible to run 3800 14 14 14 28 at 1.5v on Gskill b-die 3200 cl14 memory?
    Edit-I have 5800x on Asus CH8 Formula btw




    3800 14 flat is pretty rare even for b-die but you should be able to do cl14 with tRCDRD at 15. B-die is said to be good up to 1.6v for daily but I would make sure you have some active cooling on the dimms at that point.
     







     
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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/12 20:43:05 (permalink)
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    I think if I had a high-clocking Intel 11th Gen setup with really high speed RAM, I could possibly hit 16K.  I may even be able to get close to 16K on my current system.  My next OC/bench session will be testing with one CCX disabled so I'll be running 8 cores instead of 16, to see how that effects my scores.  A few folks have suggested that might help... also, apparently Time Spy (regular, not Extreme) maxes out at 10 cores used & actually performs worse on higher core count CPUs, so I may try running 5 cores on each CCX for that.
     
    I'm genuinely curious if I can actually run 2000 FCLK, but I doubt it.  That's another thing I'll be trying.




    Yeah I hear you. A small part of me regrets building an AM4 rig (this is primarily a gaming/benching rig after all) but I've still been enjoying it immensely and performance is still at the bleeding edge. I was factoring in resale value as well, with new platforms coming later this fall w/ DDR5 I doubt I will have this AM4 rig for very long.
     
    You can also try 1933fclk too, every step will gain you performance if you can get it stable. For me, 1933fclk is more stable than 2000fclk but both throw WHEA's so I'm tightening 1900/3800 as best I can in hopes a new AGESA comes along at some point and magically stabilizes 1933/2000.
    post edited by degenerate - 2021/05/12 20:47:45


     
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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/12 23:40:12 (permalink)
    Yeah 2000FCLK/4000 CL18 threw 100 errors in HWInfo in less than 5 minutes of being in Windows - but it booted in to Windows, so that's something at least.
     
    Right now I'm not messing with any of that too much until I make up my mind about getting this 4000MHz CL15 4x8GB kit I'm looking at picking up.  I'm figuring that should be better for a 1900/3800 setting if I can't get 2000 stable on the FCLK, with tighter timings than my current kit can run, maybe.  Not that 3800 CL14 is "bad" but maybe the other kit can do better since these sticks I have now are dual rank & the 4x8GB kit obvious would be single rank.

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/13 15:21:52 (permalink)
    whats good temps for the memory as reported to HWinfo?
    I get to mid to upper 30s for gaming and bench/stress gets to low 40s
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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/13 17:09:47 (permalink)
    generally speaking B-Die gets less happy the higher it goes, which might be why your memory is throwing errors at the tighter timings, or at least part of why.
     
    Anything over 40C and they're gonna start being unhappy if they're on fairly tight timings, especially since it's CL14 3200MHz sticks, which are not very highly "binned" B-Die, from what I understand.

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/14 09:19:44 (permalink)
    I can see B-Die running fine at 1.5V
    But personally, I wouldn't wanna pass 1.45V for daily use even with B-die. 

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/14 14:37:25 (permalink)
    RIP, silver kit went out of stock... I may wait for it to come back in to stock then order it.  We shall see.

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/18 15:11:09 (permalink)
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    RIP, silver kit went out of stock... I may wait for it to come back in to stock then order it.  We shall see.


    It went back in stock literally less then an hour after you PM me earlier lol, tried messaging you but I cant tell if you got it or not 
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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/18 23:17:56 (permalink)
    I got woke up by the in stock email & ordered it.  Will be here in about 10 hours (I'm gonna go meet the UPS guy & pick it up when they're at their sorting point before the trucks actually move out to deliver stuff).
     
    Then I just gotta find someone who wants the other kit, assuming the 4000MHz one works the way I want it to.

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/18 23:54:09 (permalink)
    Currently testing this... I know this kit can do 4000mhz 16-18-18-36, but this new 5900x won't boot at 2000flck, so I'm now tightening timings at 3800. Micron Rev.B is pretty damn impressive, and cheap compared to B-Die.
     

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/19 02:43:08 (permalink)
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    Currently testing this... I know this kit can do 4000mhz 16-18-18-36, but this new 5900x won't boot at 2000flck, so I'm now tightening timings at 3800. Micron Rev.B is pretty damn impressive, and cheap compared to B-Die.



    Which kit are you working with?
     
    Right now I'm just hopin' mine actually gets here today, it still hasn't hit the local hub yet and it's getting in to the wee hours of the morning already...

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/19 05:02:33 (permalink)
    Im using crucial Ballistix 3600mhz cl 16 kit
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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/19 16:01:53 (permalink)
    Man this stuff is fighting me every step of the way so far... Finally got it to not F9-loop til a clear happened by loading my profile for Stock 3800/1900 with the other kit, for some reason that works with nothing but a voltage bump on the RAM setting.   Tested it & it did not throw errors for an hour of stressing with the CPU at stock & memory being fully loaded up to over 30GB. 

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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/20 03:16:38 (permalink)
    Well for whatever reason, it was much more cooperative today.  It F9ed twice then trained at 3800MHz CL14 1.5V (aka what the other kit ran at, basically).  I think it's my Infinity Fabric/memory controller that's a bit unhappy & causing the F9 code when trying to boot at new settings, because the RAM seems perfectly happy once I actually get it to post & get in Windows.  Ran a memory test for an hour, zero WHEA boops, not even a hint of issues so far.

    If it's happy like this it's good enough for me to keep it.  The plastic is still on the sticks, for now, and they peaked at 37.8C, 33.8C, 35.5C & 36.3C respectively - that's with all the system fans blowing full speed because that's how the system rolls with stress tests.  Idles are in the 28-31C range with the fans at "normal" ~1000RPM idle speeds.
     
    Guess there's nothin' left to do now but game on it & see if I get any blue screens or whatnot, given that the memory stress gave no errors, I doubt I'm going to have issues.
     


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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/20 16:43:31 (permalink)
    This is my current settings, I literally copied this from Gamersnexus 3600 or 3700x livestream OC off youtube from last year.
    It is stable with these timings, wondering what I can do to get it to run 14141430 hm.....
    Edit- also what would need to be done to get it to run 1T?
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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/20 16:44:41 (permalink)

    did this work....
     
    Edit- sorry for the double post, was able to upload direct image file through edit on PC, and figured out how to use imgbb  url in this post
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    Re: RAM Overclocking - Let us learn & burn together! lol 2021/05/21 14:03:57 (permalink)
    Anyone still alive out there who could help point me in the right direction lol
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