so now that we’ve got the test bench actually working we can get on to the blog that we planned on filming earlier this week regarding RAM speed and directly how it not to be confused Rammstein that’s something completely different boom hast but I’ve had a lot of questions recently regarding how fast Ram they should buy a lot of people send me their parts lists and stuff and

I people seem confused like do I need slow Ram will it matter – I need fast Ram so today we’re gonna kind of take a trip down that path specifically with some gaming titles a few production titles as well as our 99 hundred KS now there’s a few things that might change your results of this will kind of get into that but first we have to pay some bills many of us are working and learning from home during these changing times and Micro Center has,

what you need to create a seamless work or learn from home setup including laptops desktops webcams and more micro Center has adjusted store hours as well as limited the capacity of customers to create a safe shopping experience but also has many essential items available via their online store and for those of you practicing social distancing but still need to get your daily dose of tech.

micro Center has a new community forum where you can discuss and share your favorite tech and setups including a chance to win a $500 gift card to learn more about how to get your essential techniques for micro Center and to visit the community click the link in the description below so what we’ve done here is tried to create a little bit of a bottlenecking situation we do have a 99 hundred KS that’s at stock speeds we didn’t overclock it any farther and we have 16 gigabytes of skill try to z non RGB memory

but this is the 38 66 XMP profile version we have a 20  gaming trio from MSI because we’re trying to push a lot of frames per second because we really want to find the scenario which we can see there be a tangible difference between memory speeds and then the motherboard

we’re using is a z3 90 dark from EVGA this is one their overclocking board does kind of got the funky layout with the RAM turned sideways so they can get all the power together but none of that really is going to matter there’s a few things that you’re gonna want to do to sort of prepare for this you’re gonna want to probably update your BIOS

if you’re running new fast memory when it comes to the memory tables and the speeds and XMP compatibility and all of that Ram is constantly kind of updating and getting faster and getting larger and your motherboard might need a BIOS update to be able to support it you probably might need a BIOS update also to support a newer CPU that came out after a particular motherboard as you saw in our last video but moving forward let’s go and talk about this the speed that you see on the RAM stick.

Choosing the right RAM speed for your system

itself in this case the ballistics is a twenty four hundred megahertz you can see the timings right there next to it it’s always on the label that speed is the rated XMP or extreme memory profile or an aim DS case a do CP the maximum speed the kit the RAM is rated to it does not run that speed out of the box so what we sort of wanted to demonstrate here today is if you built the system and just left

it as is it touched nothing and then changed one setting enabling the XMP profile will you gain more performance now there’s some things that you’re going to probably want to know to know how to do that and every single BIOS is going to be different so you’re going to want to maybe watch a tutorial or actually look at the manual that comes with your motherboard.

they do have BIOS pages in there to kind of explain some of the basic settings instead of having to sit there and mash delete there’s a simple way from inside your operating system to that you can also get to your BIOS and we’re going to show you that now,

if you click the little window click the power button and then shift click restart troubleshoot Advanced Options UEFI firmware settings so what that’s telling the motherboard is hey restart into your BIOS I thought I’d show you guys that little trick well we’re assuming people’s computers are working though it’s fine it’s a feature guys it works

I promise watch oh no it’s stuck at a six this is exactly what happened last time I’m gonna build a new test bench so after a simple reboot you know it’s really easy you go into your setup and at least in the EVGA BIOS things are very very simplified.

so what you’re gonna want to look for in your settings a lot of times they’re gonna be under the main pages where you’re gonna find CPU settings as well as Ram you brakes memory out into a different tab so you can see right here what our memory currently is but you can see what we paid for so it’s a ddr4 30 867 it’s funny that says 38 66 on the actual sticks but whatever but what you’ll notice too is the timings are me quite a bit different at 20 133 or slower memory you’re getting tighter timings but when you speed up the memory you’re gonna get looser timings and there’s reasons for that but a lot of the times this number will reign dominant over this one.