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my ram OC's to 4000 CAS 18, should I just leave it at 3200 CAS 14 instead?

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lynx29 said:
why would I do this? I am very happy/stable with current cas 18 1T 4000
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I think that was the point, mess with the other numbers and your asking for stability trouble.
 
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Sasqui said:
I think that was the point, mess with the other numbers and your asking for stability trouble.
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I never messed with anything, I went to MSI BIOS, clicked memory try it, it rebooted twice and thats what I got, lol its stable, AIDA 64 never crashed, and I did 4 benches and 3 demanding games, 0 issues. im quite happy.
 
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lynx29 said:
I never messed with anything, I went to MSI BIOS, clicked memory try it, it rebooted twice and thats what I got, lol its stable, AIDA 64 never crashed, and I did 4 benches and 3 demanding games, 0 issues. im quite happy.
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Nice, that's some screaming RAM. Let's see some numbers! ...Passmark maybe?
 
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I never messed with anything, I went to MSI BIOS, clicked memory try it, it rebooted twice and thats what I got, lol its stable, AIDA 64 never crashed, and I did 4 benches and 3 demanding games, 0 issues. im quite happy.
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Does your BIOS have "Gaming try it" yet?
 
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jmcslob said:
Does your BIOS have "Gaming try it" yet?
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It does. I tried it earlier this morning and all it did was set my RAM to XMP 3200 14-14-14 lol no idea if I did it wrong, but the only option is to click on it, didn't do anything for me. I tried both "gaming try it and gaming try it maxed" those were the two options under Memory Try It... maybe the MOBO has to be set in game mode in BIOS before that works? I am not sure... game mode makes it 4.2ghz max clock though.... so i really want to avoid turning that on since my 5ghz is low temps and rock solid stable
 
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jmcslob said:
Does your BIOS have "Gaming try it" yet?
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All things considered, RAM at this speed is a non issue really and running it at 4000, I mean yeah its cool for epeen ;)

Either way nice OC there lynx
 
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Why ask when you can just test yourself? I would think the 3200 cl14 would care a bit better but cl18 at 4000 could come close.
 
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erocker said:
Why ask when you can just test yourself? I would think the 3200 cl14 would care a bit better but cl18 at 4000 could come close.
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I just wasn't sure what the general consensus was, also, there are a lot of behind the scenes stuff windows does, that may benefit from faster speed over latency, I am not sure... its hard to tell, but I think 4000 "feels" overall snappier when clicking on stuff... but I have no idea, could be placebo.
 
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lynx29 said:
its hard to tell, but I think 4000 "feels" overall snappier when clicking on stuff... but I have no idea, could be placebo.
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It is placebo.
 
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it will really depend on the usage.

somethings will respond better to the extra bandwidth 4000mhz gives you while somethings will like the lower latency 3200mhz gives.

i would imagine somewhere in the middle will be the best overall exp. like see how tight you can get them to run at 3600mhz or so.

i would use aida, cinebench and cpuz to give you an idea of the performance changes and test it on each multi from 32 to 40, then go with what ever you like the most :D
 
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