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digital nomad:

--- Quote from: dmdilks on February 09, 2016, 03:49:23 pm ---The other thing is understand you just can't drop in the memory and use XMP.

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On previous computers, that's EXACTLY what you did with no problems. The manufactures worked out a over-clock that worked and called it ExtremeMemoryProfile (XMP).

Now you have to be a electrical engineer and fiddle with all the settings. That's fine for some, but I would rather spend my time USING the computer and not spend a bunch of time on trial and error.

dmdilks:
Yes it was like that years ago. Drop memory and plug and play. Years ago they only put on the box what the CPU would support and maybe a couple of ones you could OC.

But to day it is different because they having you thinking that my board can support faster memory like 3000. I'm going to buy that memory because it will make my computer run really fast. "NOT"

People you are really losing performance with faster memory all it is today is a selling point. Been doing this too many years to play their games. The XMP mode has been around for years.

It is the memory that is just starting to catch up with the boards. It is getting to a point that one of these days we don't have to do any thing to OC my computer.  It will do it for you Turbo & XMP mode. 

You don't have to spend a bunch of time on trial and error. Just by what the CPU really supports. But if you want that faster memory and it isn't XMP memory you will be spending a bunch of time on trial and error.

It says it right in the book that you have to have memory that will support XMP Mode for it to run in XMP Mode.

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