Overclocking Memory: A Comprehensive Guide

When it comes to overclocking memory, it's a process that requires patience and attention to detail. In this article, we'll delve into the world of memory overclocking, exploring the techniques, tools, and tips needed to unlock your system's full potential.

**Assessing Your System**

Before diving into memory overclocking, it's essential to assess your system's capabilities. This involves checking the memory speeds, read speeds, copy speeds, and latency. By examining these factors, you can determine if your memory is suitable for overclocking and what potential gains are possible.

In this author's experience, a memory overclock was successfully achieved on their system, with read and copy speeds increasing significantly. The latency was also reduced, indicating that the overclock had a positive impact on system performance.

**Stability Testing**

To ensure that your memory overclock is stable, it's crucial to conduct thorough stability testing. This involves running stress tests on your system, including stress tools like Prime95 or OCCT. By monitoring system behavior and performance under load, you can identify any issues with your overclock.

In this author's experience, the system failed to crash during stability testing, indicating that the memory overclock was stable and functioning correctly. However, the CPU usage test revealed a slight anomaly in system behavior, which may have been due to the memory overclocking process itself.

**The Limits of Memory Overclocking**

When it comes to memory overclocking, there are physical limitations to consider. The maximum speed at which your memory can operate is determined by the manufacturer's specifications and the capabilities of your system's chipset. Attempting to push your memory beyond these limits can result in instability or damage.

In this author's experience, their CPU was unable to reach 4.5 GHz under load, but the same applied to the memory overclock. This highlights the importance of respecting the limits of your system and not pushing your hardware too hard.

**Optimizing Memory Timings**

When it comes to optimizing memory timings, a more subtle approach is often necessary. While attempting to push for extremely low latency values may not always be successful, dropping timings by 1-2 ticks can still result in significant performance gains.

In this author's experience, their memory was successfully overclocked from the factory default of 15-36-13-40 at 1.2V to a stable overclock at 1454-40 at 2,400 MHz. This highlights the importance of carefully tuning timings to achieve optimal results.

**Conclusion**

Overclocking memory is a challenging but rewarding process that requires attention to detail and patience. By assessing your system's capabilities, conducting stability testing, respecting physical limits, optimizing timings, and pushing for further performance gains, you can unlock significant benefits from your memory overclock. Whether you're a seasoned enthusiast or just starting out, this comprehensive guide provides the tools and expertise needed to take your memory overclocking to the next level.

**Additional Tips**

For those interested in exploring memory overclocking further, there are several additional tips and considerations worth noting:

* **Keep an eye on system temperatures**: High temperatures can cause instability and damage to your hardware.

* **Monitor system behavior under load**: Keeping an eye on system performance during stress testing can help identify potential issues with your overclock.

* **Be cautious when pushing speeds**: While it's tempting to push your memory to its limits, be careful not to overdo it – this can result in instability or damage.

* **Respect the manufacturer's specifications**: Don't attempt to overclock your memory beyond its recommended limits.

By following these tips and taking a thoughtful approach to memory overclocking, you can unlock significant performance gains from your system while minimizing the risk of instability or damage.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso You' probably just bought some ddr4 memory and you've stumbled upon this video and in my opinion you're entitled to get those extra speeds for the money you just spent welcome back to techs city today we're going to be doing a ddr4 memory overclocking tutorial and now in this tutorial it differs a little bit to the DDR3 memory over tutorial in that the timings are a little bit uh more relaxed the voltages are lower but for what it's worth a lot of the variables are still the same as they were with DDR3 memory we've just got to change those variables especially the first three timings as low as possible and then we've got to change the t- to a sweet spot and that's about it h give it maybe give it a bit of a voltage bump so today we'll be going for a 2,400 MHz overclock on some crucial ddr4 memory I don't have the ddr4 memory box but I've got a crucial MX 100 SSD here that should do the trick uh but without further Ado let's move on now to the tutorial okay so now you're on the desktop I want you guys to grab a program called Ida 64 it's um it's pretty much got it all this program is really good for benchmarking Haswell uh now I'll put the link in the description below you can download it for free you also get a three uh free 30-day trial as well um which I do recommend just using that you don't have to buy this software you can just use it for free for 30 days to find your overclock and then be done um but yeah anyway once we're done there we can go to tools we can go C uid and we can also go to um system I mean you can do the C and memory Benchmark here which will Benchmark your memory fine so go to tools again we'll open up CPU ID just to make sure as you can see we got the 4 Gig overclock that I just did before and we can go to C memory Benchmark and so we want what we want to do here is before we start doing this overclocking tutorial is we want to make sure that our memory overclocks are stable and we're actually getting the said increases on our memory because if for instance if we're overclocking like today we're going to be going for a 4.2 uh gig overclock so since we're going for a 4.2 U sorry not 2.4 gig overclock or 2,400 MHz on the memory we're going to want to make sure and want to check what our Baseline speeds are before we do this and so this is just to make sure that we're actually getting performance benefits out of overclocking our memory so what we're doing here is we're just running a quick Benchmark on the memory just to make sure um everything that we do today is actually giving us an increase and then we should be good to go so use this as a baseline you might want to save a screenshot uh after you've run this Benchmark and then you can start jumping into the BS however we just have to wait until this benchmark's done as also with my overclocking tutorials I don't like to cut um any of it out unless I have to before I was coughing in my previous um Benchmark so I had to cut it out but uh so here we see here we're just going to run the Benchmark and then we're going to restart the computer and then we're going to start overclocking the memory now one thing to remember just like the CPU is the memory also is pretty much a silicon Lottery some people can get really good memory some people can get bad memory in that it doesn't overclock too well uh so basically these speeds for instance mine's The crucial ddr4 2,133 MHz memory these speeds out of the box is what it's guaranteed to run at uh so today we're going for 2,400 MHz with slightly lower timings and that should give us a bit of a performance increase so here we finished the Benchmark we see here those numbers uh 46,000 51,000 49,000 those are the ones to look at uh especially with that total latency there of 69.6 nond so once we've done that we can save that I will save it to my desktop and we can go save and then we can close these down and restart our computer and start jumping into the bios so we're going to start getting straight into the deep end now as I said before in my uh CPU overclocking tutorial you may have a different bios to me uh especially this if this is in the future where different motherboards are out say the x109 or whatever numbering scheme but uh we got here we hit delete just to jump into BIOS as soon as we start up our computer and yeah so we just got to wait try and jump into BIOS hopefully uh bios hopefully the gigabyte bios bug doesn't strike again so the gigabyte um motherboard the x99 it actually has this problem where it can't I mean you can get in stable overclocks but it just resets the overclocks it's some weird bug going on with this bios but anyways we boot up the computer we can just hit delete and jump straight into the BIOS hopefully I don't know what's going on here it's just taking its time come on gigabyte motherboard it's doing a few Cycles resetting having a dance okay so I like you guys to see everything as well everything that happens behind the scenes because it's an important part to overclocking overclocking is not easy it's not just like you're not just punching in a few things and everything's perfect there's actually a lot of hair pulling and it can be stressful at times so I'm glad you guys can see that this bios bugs read its ugly head because uh anyway we're jumping into the BIOS here this is the gigabyte bios we can press f2 and get to the classic Mode now on a Zeus bias or an MSI bias or an EVGA bias might look a little bit different but again as I said in the CPU overclocking tutorial the settings should be pretty similar so now that we've moved into we can go down to a Advanced so we should have our Advanced frequency settings we should have our 4 gig overclock locked in here uh but now we can go down to Advanced memory settings and what we want to do here is we want to up it to 2.4 gig or'll make sure your num lock button is turned on and you can use the numpad on your keyboard and do I want you guys to hit in 24 here and essentially what this will do is it'll raise the speed of our memory to 2,400 MHz now there's two ways you can do this overclock you can leave it at 2,100 33 MHz and drop the timings or you can just up the speed and try and get the best timings possible in my opinion I like to go with a bit of both that's why we're going with a 2,400 MHz overclock today so I like to give it a bit more speed I also like to drop the timings down and uh get the best overclock that I can so now memory enhancement settings we don't have to do anything there but memory timing mode we want to hit enter and go to manual and essentially this will allow us to uh edit our timings manually and put in um our settings so channel channel inter leing also we want to enable this because this will pretty much enable all the same timings across all the memory uh all the memory subsets so anyway once we've done that once we've enabled that we can then go to uh this one rank into leaving as well enabled so again we want all our settings interleaved inter intertwined entangled basically we want all our settings the same as each other across all four memory sticks so I am using four crucial ddr4 memory sticks for this overclock also if you wish to check out a review for that memory then I'll put the description link below but I I'm guessing a lot of you guys will be using crucial ddr4 memories it's actually really good value for money so this will be a great overclock if you're on crucial ddr4 memory anyway once we've done that we can hit that enabled enabled memory timing manual we can then go down to Channel A Memory sub timings and then we can go down here memory timing Mode's already set to manual and then we can go to um memory boot mode and I like to set this to normal uh mainly because of the fact that this gigabyte motherboard still has some bios problems and I like my memory uh booting up at a normal speed uh you can if you want to save time you can enable fast boot as well but I like to go normal memory boot mode and then we can go to cast latency and now for me I like to hit in 14 so see you can see the defaults 15 but that's at 2,133 MHz as we up the speed of the memory technically our latency gets faster as well because our memory is running faster in general so if we were to compare 15 Nanos seconds on the cast latency at 2,400 MHz as opposed to 2,133 MHz it would be something like 14 yeah around about 13.9 maybe I'm not too sure I got have to get a calculator anyway off the top of my head that makes about sense uh but anyway we're going down to 14 now so essentially at 2,33 MHz I could probably run this at 13 but since we're going for 2,400 MHz I'm going to drop this down to 14 and the trcd I'm going to put this to 15 generally I found with my DDR3 memory as well this setting the trcd uh generally loves to uh be 1 nond slot than the cast latency and the trp now you're probably wondering what exactly these settings are um basically they just think of it as just simple variables which you have to change in order to get the best speeds possible don't try to understand exactly what they are um I mean if you want to stand understand what they are then I'll put a Wiki article in the description below where you can read up about all these timings and what they do but just understand the way we can change them and what affects what essentially so don't try to understand why why why just understand that these are variables you need to get them as low as possible um for the said voltage in order to get the best speeds so now we've done you can and feel free to copy my settings if my settings don't work then you may wish to drop it back to 15 possibly even 16 like that and just just you know 15 17 16 if your memory is really bad so it depends on you guys but I'm going for 14 154 at um 2,400 MHz now with these three settings these These are the three ones that you want as low as possible now the t- this is a setting which generally in the past with DDR3 and ddr2 especially this one was generally the sum of all these three plus one which in this case would be like 44 but I found on ddr4 memory it's a different kettle of fish this 44 actually makes my computer a little bit weird like icons don't refresh properly um I just find in general I have a little bit of problems if this is the same uh if this is the sum of all three + one or two so generally I found for my Ram I like to have this a little bit under the sum of all these three say -4 or -3 I find if I have this at 38 again I run into problems so I like to have this at 40 uh the sum of all these 3 - 3 so you guys can copy mine uh mine sweet spot for This is 40 uh your sweet spot might be a little bit different but again you want to set this uh to whatever a sweet spot is on your RAM and that can only be done through testing and that's the sometimes that's the hard part I can't tell you what your sweet spot will be for your memory sometimes you just have to test test it out and find out for yourself so feel free to copy my settings and if they don't work you can maybe relax Max them a little bit like this uh and go from there but for what it's worth we'll go with 145 1440 and then we'll go escape and essentially what that'll do is since they're all inter Leed it'll enable that on all the channels as well so here we go there Channel A B C D should be all the same and now for voltage so once we've done that we can hit escape and we can hit escape again and we can go down to Advanced voltage settings and we can hit enter here and then we can go to uh Dam voltage control and we can hit enter and what we want to do here is maybe give it a little bit of a boost sometimes your memory will run at these speeds at 1.2 volt in my case I had to give it a little bit more and that was 1.23 Vol uh so maybe you might want to start off with say 1 uh 25 Vol and maybe go from there that's up to you maybe yes since we're just doing a guide today we'll go with 1.2 uh 2 5 Vol on both the Dual Channel configurations am and am now the D DDR VPP voltage we don't have to touch that and the dam termination voltage we can generally leave those at Auto since we're not going for a a really big overclock here we're just going for a nice simple easy overclock a little bit of an enhancement so 1.2 volt we'll start off with that if you can't boot you might have to give it a bit more or if you're on a gigabyte bios you might have the BIOS bug and so you don't even know if it's stable or not so I really wish gigabyte would hurry up and fix their bios bug uh but for what it's worth if you're on MSI Zeus or an evj motherboard sure you can start out trying 1.25 volt and now once we've done that we can hit uh left and right on the numpad and go over to save and exit and go down to save profile and we can maybe um put here 4 gigs uh memory testing memory um memory test so just so we know what um what overclock we're going with today so we've done that profile saved okay and now we can go to save and exit and hit enter and we should be good to go now so we should be able to boot straight into windows and hopefully everything is stable so I decided with my overclocking tutorials this time uh to go with some easy overclocks because last time I did go a little bit aggressive with my overclocks and some people were not able to obtain the overclocks that I was able to obtain and so it caused a little bit of confusion this time I'm going with overclocks that I think most people should be able to obtain a lot of the population should be able to obtain so hopefully this guides a little bit more simpler than my previous guides as well as the fact that Haswell e is just a power consumption Beast I mean it's pretty funny this thing actually uses up quite a bit of power Haswell the six core um the also the ddr4 even though the ddr4 uses up less power than the DDR3 the actual six core itself is a bit of a beast so any once we boot it into Windows here we'll see that that was a successful boot so what that means is that my memory is either um stable or it's really close to being stable now there's another setting in there that's pretty important and that's the command rate though um we won't go over that today because yeah I mean it's it's one of those settings that can cause a lot of problems as well uh for starters I do recommend trying one t so i' I'd recommend trying 2 T first actually and if your overclock is stable at those speeds then you can try drop it down to 1T though if it becomes unstable you can put it back to 2T and it shouldn't be much of a problem I find it doesn't affect gaming uh especially smoothness at all so that's something you might want to test but once we've done that we can go open it of 64 and we can open CPU ID and we can open um C memory Benchmark now before and we can go start Benchmark now before I showed you that screenshot so what we're doing this time around is we're simply making sure that our memory is running either higher or at least the same as it was before and so hopefully you guys should see here a better Benchmark than what I got before and now my memory is able as well I'll talk about a few other things this memory I've got is a able to go up to 2,666 MHz now there's more expensive Ram out there that's able to go even higher uh say 2800 MHz and that's with profiles of I think their XMP profiles as well so if you have some of that Ram that's great I'd probably just recommend whacking in the XMP profiles and being and calling it a day uh but if you're on the you know the budget ddr4 memory which is fantastic value for money uh then you can overclock this stuff and get a bit of extra performance out of it as we can see here the latency is already faster than what it previously was so we've shaved about 6 NS off the latency which is a good thing especially for games um and so I mean you can shave it you can try shave off more time if you want to by dropping some of these timings down even more uh maybe you can try and get it down to 59 uh that's I think that's where I got it down to 59 NS at 2,666 I believe but anyway let's have a save we'll save that now desktop um I think it was called casm 2 so we'll call that number two we'll save that there and now we can open these up side by side and we can check or we just do one and the other uh but we can see here the memory we look at the speeds here we can see here the read speeds are faster on the overclock the right speeds are a little bit faster which is still a good thing and the copy speeds are significant iFly faster so uh the read and copy speeds are faster and the latency is better so the level three case was a little bit slower 2 nond slower but that's not to worry because generally everything else is a bit faster so this in my opinion is a successful overclock on the memory uh now another thing we can do is if you want to make sure that this memory overclock is fully stable we can close this down we can go to system stability test here and we can just click stress so make sure these are R checked and just stress system memory and then we can start and this if there's a problem with your memory you should be able to see it here so we can see here this one's just going up and down a little bit but I mean since it's system memory it can do this so don't worry about it too much um anyway that's that system memory is fine I mean sorry this is the actual CPU usage so as I was saying before it's fine um if this is dropping up and down since it's actually testing the C CPU I sorry it's testing the ddr4 memory and not the CPU uh so anyway you can run this system to stability test this will just stress your system memory if you come into a crash almost immediately that would indicate that you either need more voltage or you have to drop your speeds back so just like the CPU some memory just won't be able to run at certain speeds you'll hit the you'll hit the max cap where your your gear just can't run anymore for instance my CPU just can't go over 4.5 gigs um I mean it can boot at 4.5 gigs hell I think it can even boot at 4.6 gigs but it can't be stable at 4.5 gigs the most I can get my Haswell CPU do is 4.4 gigs fully stable as opposed to my uh four core which can get fully stable at 4.6 gigs sorry I just had to have a break there I just coughed it so dry in this room but um anyway as I was saying last things last and that is yeah your memory just might not be able to get to 2,666 MHz uh if you're really unlucky you might not even be able to get your memory to 2,400 MHz uh I imagine there would be someone out there that just can't get their memory to 2,400 MHz and if you're that person then you've just lost the Silicon Lottery that's all it means uh however even if you can't get your memory to 2,400 MHz I still recommend dropping down the timings if you can 15536 seems a little bit um it's not I guess it's not the perfect overclock for memory out of the factory I'd maybe try and get it down to 13 14 133 uh 36 and just leave it at that I'd try and do that first starters at 1.2 volt but as you've seen here I've got my memory at 1454 40 at 2,400 MHz and it's running completely fine it's beasting it's feasting and it's winning so if you guys have any questions about over blocking memory then please leave a comment in the comment section below and if you like this tutorial please give it a thumbs up and if you have any questions or anything yeah you just don't understand or you want to get your head around then I'll help you out as best as I can anyway guys if you haven't already subscribed to Tech City where I'll be coming back with more Tech videos for you guys and I look forward to catching you guys in another tech video very soon and also one thing I forgot to add was that yeah just I mean memory overclocking memory is a little bit more annoying than overclocking the CPU in my opinion because uh um even though you might think you've got a stable memory overclock it's just more random in general like if you don't have a stable CPU overclock it'll generally tell you pretty much straight away a memory an unstable memory overclock can do some little some weird things like for instance icons not showing and so if you've noticed if you just noticed something strange um as soon after you've done your memory overclocks then in my opinion that's not a stable memory overclock and you might want to give it a little bit more voltage or slow down some of speeds or relax your timings a little bit anyway guys that's about it and I look forward to seeing you in another tech video peace out for now byeso You' probably just bought some ddr4 memory and you've stumbled upon this video and in my opinion you're entitled to get those extra speeds for the money you just spent welcome back to techs city today we're going to be doing a ddr4 memory overclocking tutorial and now in this tutorial it differs a little bit to the DDR3 memory over tutorial in that the timings are a little bit uh more relaxed the voltages are lower but for what it's worth a lot of the variables are still the same as they were with DDR3 memory we've just got to change those variables especially the first three timings as low as possible and then we've got to change the t- to a sweet spot and that's about it h give it maybe give it a bit of a voltage bump so today we'll be going for a 2,400 MHz overclock on some crucial ddr4 memory I don't have the ddr4 memory box but I've got a crucial MX 100 SSD here that should do the trick uh but without further Ado let's move on now to the tutorial okay so now you're on the desktop I want you guys to grab a program called Ida 64 it's um it's pretty much got it all this program is really good for benchmarking Haswell uh now I'll put the link in the description below you can download it for free you also get a three uh free 30-day trial as well um which I do recommend just using that you don't have to buy this software you can just use it for free for 30 days to find your overclock and then be done um but yeah anyway once we're done there we can go to tools we can go C uid and we can also go to um system I mean you can do the C and memory Benchmark here which will Benchmark your memory fine so go to tools again we'll open up CPU ID just to make sure as you can see we got the 4 Gig overclock that I just did before and we can go to C memory Benchmark and so we want what we want to do here is before we start doing this overclocking tutorial is we want to make sure that our memory overclocks are stable and we're actually getting the said increases on our memory because if for instance if we're overclocking like today we're going to be going for a 4.2 uh gig overclock so since we're going for a 4.2 U sorry not 2.4 gig overclock or 2,400 MHz on the memory we're going to want to make sure and want to check what our Baseline speeds are before we do this and so this is just to make sure that we're actually getting performance benefits out of overclocking our memory so what we're doing here is we're just running a quick Benchmark on the memory just to make sure um everything that we do today is actually giving us an increase and then we should be good to go so use this as a baseline you might want to save a screenshot uh after you've run this Benchmark and then you can start jumping into the BS however we just have to wait until this benchmark's done as also with my overclocking tutorials I don't like to cut um any of it out unless I have to before I was coughing in my previous um Benchmark so I had to cut it out but uh so here we see here we're just going to run the Benchmark and then we're going to restart the computer and then we're going to start overclocking the memory now one thing to remember just like the CPU is the memory also is pretty much a silicon Lottery some people can get really good memory some people can get bad memory in that it doesn't overclock too well uh so basically these speeds for instance mine's The crucial ddr4 2,133 MHz memory these speeds out of the box is what it's guaranteed to run at uh so today we're going for 2,400 MHz with slightly lower timings and that should give us a bit of a performance increase so here we finished the Benchmark we see here those numbers uh 46,000 51,000 49,000 those are the ones to look at uh especially with that total latency there of 69.6 nond so once we've done that we can save that I will save it to my desktop and we can go save and then we can close these down and restart our computer and start jumping into the bios so we're going to start getting straight into the deep end now as I said before in my uh CPU overclocking tutorial you may have a different bios to me uh especially this if this is in the future where different motherboards are out say the x109 or whatever numbering scheme but uh we got here we hit delete just to jump into BIOS as soon as we start up our computer and yeah so we just got to wait try and jump into BIOS hopefully uh bios hopefully the gigabyte bios bug doesn't strike again so the gigabyte um motherboard the x99 it actually has this problem where it can't I mean you can get in stable overclocks but it just resets the overclocks it's some weird bug going on with this bios but anyways we boot up the computer we can just hit delete and jump straight into the BIOS hopefully I don't know what's going on here it's just taking its time come on gigabyte motherboard it's doing a few Cycles resetting having a dance okay so I like you guys to see everything as well everything that happens behind the scenes because it's an important part to overclocking overclocking is not easy it's not just like you're not just punching in a few things and everything's perfect there's actually a lot of hair pulling and it can be stressful at times so I'm glad you guys can see that this bios bugs read its ugly head because uh anyway we're jumping into the BIOS here this is the gigabyte bios we can press f2 and get to the classic Mode now on a Zeus bias or an MSI bias or an EVGA bias might look a little bit different but again as I said in the CPU overclocking tutorial the settings should be pretty similar so now that we've moved into we can go down to a Advanced so we should have our Advanced frequency settings we should have our 4 gig overclock locked in here uh but now we can go down to Advanced memory settings and what we want to do here is we want to up it to 2.4 gig or'll make sure your num lock button is turned on and you can use the numpad on your keyboard and do I want you guys to hit in 24 here and essentially what this will do is it'll raise the speed of our memory to 2,400 MHz now there's two ways you can do this overclock you can leave it at 2,100 33 MHz and drop the timings or you can just up the speed and try and get the best timings possible in my opinion I like to go with a bit of both that's why we're going with a 2,400 MHz overclock today so I like to give it a bit more speed I also like to drop the timings down and uh get the best overclock that I can so now memory enhancement settings we don't have to do anything there but memory timing mode we want to hit enter and go to manual and essentially this will allow us to uh edit our timings manually and put in um our settings so channel channel inter leing also we want to enable this because this will pretty much enable all the same timings across all the memory uh all the memory subsets so anyway once we've done that once we've enabled that we can then go to uh this one rank into leaving as well enabled so again we want all our settings interleaved inter intertwined entangled basically we want all our settings the same as each other across all four memory sticks so I am using four crucial ddr4 memory sticks for this overclock also if you wish to check out a review for that memory then I'll put the description link below but I I'm guessing a lot of you guys will be using crucial ddr4 memories it's actually really good value for money so this will be a great overclock if you're on crucial ddr4 memory anyway once we've done that we can hit that enabled enabled memory timing manual we can then go down to Channel A Memory sub timings and then we can go down here memory timing Mode's already set to manual and then we can go to um memory boot mode and I like to set this to normal uh mainly because of the fact that this gigabyte motherboard still has some bios problems and I like my memory uh booting up at a normal speed uh you can if you want to save time you can enable fast boot as well but I like to go normal memory boot mode and then we can go to cast latency and now for me I like to hit in 14 so see you can see the defaults 15 but that's at 2,133 MHz as we up the speed of the memory technically our latency gets faster as well because our memory is running faster in general so if we were to compare 15 Nanos seconds on the cast latency at 2,400 MHz as opposed to 2,133 MHz it would be something like 14 yeah around about 13.9 maybe I'm not too sure I got have to get a calculator anyway off the top of my head that makes about sense uh but anyway we're going down to 14 now so essentially at 2,33 MHz I could probably run this at 13 but since we're going for 2,400 MHz I'm going to drop this down to 14 and the trcd I'm going to put this to 15 generally I found with my DDR3 memory as well this setting the trcd uh generally loves to uh be 1 nond slot than the cast latency and the trp now you're probably wondering what exactly these settings are um basically they just think of it as just simple variables which you have to change in order to get the best speeds possible don't try to understand exactly what they are um I mean if you want to stand understand what they are then I'll put a Wiki article in the description below where you can read up about all these timings and what they do but just understand the way we can change them and what affects what essentially so don't try to understand why why why just understand that these are variables you need to get them as low as possible um for the said voltage in order to get the best speeds so now we've done you can and feel free to copy my settings if my settings don't work then you may wish to drop it back to 15 possibly even 16 like that and just just you know 15 17 16 if your memory is really bad so it depends on you guys but I'm going for 14 154 at um 2,400 MHz now with these three settings these These are the three ones that you want as low as possible now the t- this is a setting which generally in the past with DDR3 and ddr2 especially this one was generally the sum of all these three plus one which in this case would be like 44 but I found on ddr4 memory it's a different kettle of fish this 44 actually makes my computer a little bit weird like icons don't refresh properly um I just find in general I have a little bit of problems if this is the same uh if this is the sum of all three + one or two so generally I found for my Ram I like to have this a little bit under the sum of all these three say -4 or -3 I find if I have this at 38 again I run into problems so I like to have this at 40 uh the sum of all these 3 - 3 so you guys can copy mine uh mine sweet spot for This is 40 uh your sweet spot might be a little bit different but again you want to set this uh to whatever a sweet spot is on your RAM and that can only be done through testing and that's the sometimes that's the hard part I can't tell you what your sweet spot will be for your memory sometimes you just have to test test it out and find out for yourself so feel free to copy my settings and if they don't work you can maybe relax Max them a little bit like this uh and go from there but for what it's worth we'll go with 145 1440 and then we'll go escape and essentially what that'll do is since they're all inter Leed it'll enable that on all the channels as well so here we go there Channel A B C D should be all the same and now for voltage so once we've done that we can hit escape and we can hit escape again and we can go down to Advanced voltage settings and we can hit enter here and then we can go to uh Dam voltage control and we can hit enter and what we want to do here is maybe give it a little bit of a boost sometimes your memory will run at these speeds at 1.2 volt in my case I had to give it a little bit more and that was 1.23 Vol uh so maybe you might want to start off with say 1 uh 25 Vol and maybe go from there that's up to you maybe yes since we're just doing a guide today we'll go with 1.2 uh 2 5 Vol on both the Dual Channel configurations am and am now the D DDR VPP voltage we don't have to touch that and the dam termination voltage we can generally leave those at Auto since we're not going for a a really big overclock here we're just going for a nice simple easy overclock a little bit of an enhancement so 1.2 volt we'll start off with that if you can't boot you might have to give it a bit more or if you're on a gigabyte bios you might have the BIOS bug and so you don't even know if it's stable or not so I really wish gigabyte would hurry up and fix their bios bug uh but for what it's worth if you're on MSI Zeus or an evj motherboard sure you can start out trying 1.25 volt and now once we've done that we can hit uh left and right on the numpad and go over to save and exit and go down to save profile and we can maybe um put here 4 gigs uh memory testing memory um memory test so just so we know what um what overclock we're going with today so we've done that profile saved okay and now we can go to save and exit and hit enter and we should be good to go now so we should be able to boot straight into windows and hopefully everything is stable so I decided with my overclocking tutorials this time uh to go with some easy overclocks because last time I did go a little bit aggressive with my overclocks and some people were not able to obtain the overclocks that I was able to obtain and so it caused a little bit of confusion this time I'm going with overclocks that I think most people should be able to obtain a lot of the population should be able to obtain so hopefully this guides a little bit more simpler than my previous guides as well as the fact that Haswell e is just a power consumption Beast I mean it's pretty funny this thing actually uses up quite a bit of power Haswell the six core um the also the ddr4 even though the ddr4 uses up less power than the DDR3 the actual six core itself is a bit of a beast so any once we boot it into Windows here we'll see that that was a successful boot so what that means is that my memory is either um stable or it's really close to being stable now there's another setting in there that's pretty important and that's the command rate though um we won't go over that today because yeah I mean it's it's one of those settings that can cause a lot of problems as well uh for starters I do recommend trying one t so i' I'd recommend trying 2 T first actually and if your overclock is stable at those speeds then you can try drop it down to 1T though if it becomes unstable you can put it back to 2T and it shouldn't be much of a problem I find it doesn't affect gaming uh especially smoothness at all so that's something you might want to test but once we've done that we can go open it of 64 and we can open CPU ID and we can open um C memory Benchmark now before and we can go start Benchmark now before I showed you that screenshot so what we're doing this time around is we're simply making sure that our memory is running either higher or at least the same as it was before and so hopefully you guys should see here a better Benchmark than what I got before and now my memory is able as well I'll talk about a few other things this memory I've got is a able to go up to 2,666 MHz now there's more expensive Ram out there that's able to go even higher uh say 2800 MHz and that's with profiles of I think their XMP profiles as well so if you have some of that Ram that's great I'd probably just recommend whacking in the XMP profiles and being and calling it a day uh but if you're on the you know the budget ddr4 memory which is fantastic value for money uh then you can overclock this stuff and get a bit of extra performance out of it as we can see here the latency is already faster than what it previously was so we've shaved about 6 NS off the latency which is a good thing especially for games um and so I mean you can shave it you can try shave off more time if you want to by dropping some of these timings down even more uh maybe you can try and get it down to 59 uh that's I think that's where I got it down to 59 NS at 2,666 I believe but anyway let's have a save we'll save that now desktop um I think it was called casm 2 so we'll call that number two we'll save that there and now we can open these up side by side and we can check or we just do one and the other uh but we can see here the memory we look at the speeds here we can see here the read speeds are faster on the overclock the right speeds are a little bit faster which is still a good thing and the copy speeds are significant iFly faster so uh the read and copy speeds are faster and the latency is better so the level three case was a little bit slower 2 nond slower but that's not to worry because generally everything else is a bit faster so this in my opinion is a successful overclock on the memory uh now another thing we can do is if you want to make sure that this memory overclock is fully stable we can close this down we can go to system stability test here and we can just click stress so make sure these are R checked and just stress system memory and then we can start and this if there's a problem with your memory you should be able to see it here so we can see here this one's just going up and down a little bit but I mean since it's system memory it can do this so don't worry about it too much um anyway that's that system memory is fine I mean sorry this is the actual CPU usage so as I was saying before it's fine um if this is dropping up and down since it's actually testing the C CPU I sorry it's testing the ddr4 memory and not the CPU uh so anyway you can run this system to stability test this will just stress your system memory if you come into a crash almost immediately that would indicate that you either need more voltage or you have to drop your speeds back so just like the CPU some memory just won't be able to run at certain speeds you'll hit the you'll hit the max cap where your your gear just can't run anymore for instance my CPU just can't go over 4.5 gigs um I mean it can boot at 4.5 gigs hell I think it can even boot at 4.6 gigs but it can't be stable at 4.5 gigs the most I can get my Haswell CPU do is 4.4 gigs fully stable as opposed to my uh four core which can get fully stable at 4.6 gigs sorry I just had to have a break there I just coughed it so dry in this room but um anyway as I was saying last things last and that is yeah your memory just might not be able to get to 2,666 MHz uh if you're really unlucky you might not even be able to get your memory to 2,400 MHz uh I imagine there would be someone out there that just can't get their memory to 2,400 MHz and if you're that person then you've just lost the Silicon Lottery that's all it means uh however even if you can't get your memory to 2,400 MHz I still recommend dropping down the timings if you can 15536 seems a little bit um it's not I guess it's not the perfect overclock for memory out of the factory I'd maybe try and get it down to 13 14 133 uh 36 and just leave it at that I'd try and do that first starters at 1.2 volt but as you've seen here I've got my memory at 1454 40 at 2,400 MHz and it's running completely fine it's beasting it's feasting and it's winning so if you guys have any questions about over blocking memory then please leave a comment in the comment section below and if you like this tutorial please give it a thumbs up and if you have any questions or anything yeah you just don't understand or you want to get your head around then I'll help you out as best as I can anyway guys if you haven't already subscribed to Tech City where I'll be coming back with more Tech videos for you guys and I look forward to catching you guys in another tech video very soon and also one thing I forgot to add was that yeah just I mean memory overclocking memory is a little bit more annoying than overclocking the CPU in my opinion because uh um even though you might think you've got a stable memory overclock it's just more random in general like if you don't have a stable CPU overclock it'll generally tell you pretty much straight away a memory an unstable memory overclock can do some little some weird things like for instance icons not showing and so if you've noticed if you just noticed something strange um as soon after you've done your memory overclocks then in my opinion that's not a stable memory overclock and you might want to give it a little bit more voltage or slow down some of speeds or relax your timings a little bit anyway guys that's about it and I look forward to seeing you in another tech video peace out for now bye\n"