Is there a significant distinction between manual overclocking and DOCP?
Is there a significant distinction between manual overclocking and DOCP?
for hours i attempted to overclock my ram on asus 470f, ryzen 3600 and corsair vengeance lpx 16gb 3200mhz. Eventually i chose the docp setting which adjusted the memory speed to 3200 versus 2133 and its timings. Then i applied the ez option for cpu to reach 4.0 ghz. Is this clearly superior to the default settings? Should i aim to reach the required levels according to the ryzen dram calculator? Is there a significant difference?
In gaming and everyday situations, it's not the case. But in artificial tests, it is.
I would still keep DOCP active.
Recently not much has changed, but things used to be different. My 4770k could only hit 4.0 GHz, which was considered overclocking at the time. I managed around 4.5 GHz with even lower voltages, something that's now popular on OC platforms. Auto overclocking always delivers more power than your rig actually needs, often too much. You can usually find the redline to keep things cool and smooth. Extra 100 MHz adds another 100 MHz, but you won't notice it during regular use. However, compressing a video file could change the duration by about 40 seconds depending on the total time.
Ideally yes, you can improve some strong gains from RAM speeds on Ryzen... but simply using a 3600mhz case with 16GB RAM will get you about 95% of the way there and bring the IF speed up to 1800mhz, which would be perfect. It really depends on how much time you're willing to spend on RAM timings to support an application that offers benefits.