Speeding up Your RAM and Timing Settings
Speeding up Your RAM and Timing Settings
Yes, you can try to make your RAM run faster by "overclocking" it. To figure out exactly how much speed up is possible, check the memory settings on your rig. Don't forget that these changes need to be saved in the BIOS, not just in Windows, for them to take effect.
Overclocking your RAM isn't just bad; it's already very fast and involves a lot of work to make sure everything works correctly. Even worse, you can't simply go faster than 3600mhz on the Ryzen 3000 series without losing some performance, as shown in this article.
Overclocking RAM is a bad idea because it's already very fast and needs a complicated step to make sure everything works safely after you change the settings. Plus, if you want to go faster than 3600mhz on your Ryzen 3000 series computer, you will get slower performance without paying extra money. Here is where this comes from: https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3508-...ock-mclock In addition to that, your 3400G card is not a Zen2 chip. It is actually a Zen+ type, and because of this plus the rules on B450 motherboards (except for the MSI Max models), you probably won't be able to go faster than 3200mhz no matter what. If you can run them at their full speed without slowing down below that, then you will be lucky and okay with just using 3600mhz. I don't know of any Gigabyte B450 boards today that actually support speeds higher than 3200mhz even though some websites might promise otherwise.
After 3200MHz, there really isn't much point in it. Most people agree with that. With DDR3, you can see great improvements when you tweak timings and boost the speed between 1333 to 1866 or from 1600 up to 2133 MHz. But once you hit over 3000MHz+, the benefits of going to DDR4 drop way down. EDIT: this applies only if you're playing games.
No, there are actually some speed boosts all the way up to 3600 MHz on Ryzen chips. But here is simple math: those small gains disappear when you compare them against a slower 3200 MHz kit with a CAS14 delay. If you buy a 3600 MHz kit that has a slow delay, you lose all the benefit of the cheaper memory. On the surface, 3200 MHz CL14 is just slightly faster than 3600 MHz CL16. While 3600 MHz CL14 might be moderately quicker, the difference is likely too small for most people to notice, except maybe when you look at synthetic tests that give a slight "feel" of the system being snappier. For actual gaming, that speedup probably won't make any real difference.