overclock ram to ease my anxiety
overclock ram to ease my anxiety
Hi everyone!
I'm really new to overclocking — sorry if my questions seem simple.
I have an ASRock B550 Pro 4, a Ryzen 5 3600x, and 4x8 Patriot Viper 3000 MHz RAM (pv416g300c6k). The RAM performed well at 3000Mhz with various timings and voltages. At 1.35V it worked fine. The Typhoon Burner says the chip is from Hynix, but it doesn't provide any details — it just lists H5AN8G8N??R-TFC. After some research, I think it might be an AFR or MFR model.
I was hoping to push this RAM up to 3200Mhz. First, I adjusted the frequency in the XMP profile from 3000 to 3200, but the system wouldn't boot and then restarted at 2133Mhz (the default non-XMP setting). Then I changed the timings to something like 17-19-19-38; it worked temporarily, but CL automatically switched back to 18, which I thought might not be worth it. Later, I went back to 16-18-18-36 timings and increased the voltage to 1.39V. Now it boots and has been stable for about two days. I did some light tasks (not too demanding), watched videos/streaming, and played around for 5-6 hours or AC:Odyssey without any problems. I also ran Memtest64 and HCI Memtest for about 6-7 hours each time, with no errors.
The question is, am I in a good position now? Are there any concerns about voltages or anything else? I didn't change the SoC voltage — it's set to the default 1.1V. Although I don't have temperature sensors on the RAM, I haven't noticed an increase in heat output. The temperatures for both the motherboard and CPU stayed the same. I don't plan to overclock further; my goal is a stable 3200Mhz CL16 RAM with a voltage that won't speed up degradation unnecessarily.
Verify the hardware details, there should be temperature readings for your RAM. But 1.39 volts is quite high, although I don't believe the heat generation will be significant.
As I said, these sticks don't have temperature sensors, so there is no info in HWiNFO etc.
I did not think it is high, browsed some forums a bit and assumed it would be OK.
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All right, I will set it back to 1.35v then and return to 3000 Mhz. Thanks!
I thought 1.39 volts was too high, but it might be okay. Also, perhaps consider a compromise such as 1.375.
DDR4 works well with 1.6v++ power supply, no concerns needed. Even without heat sinks.