Tuesday, 27 May 2014

RAM Speed Not Running as Advertised? Try Turning on XMP But Watch out!

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Your RAM may not run at the advertised speed. According to Reddit user Marck527, many motherboards don’t recognize the right CAS latency or frequency of RAM. This issue exists on Intel motherboards and can easily be resolved by enabling XMP in your motherboard’s UEFI (or BIOS) settings. Unfortunately, the fix causes additional issues – whenever you enable XMP, it may sometimes set your Turbo Boost frequencies to the maximum frequency, which causes the silicon on your CPU to age faster. For those with Haswell and Ivy Bridge CPUs, this further exacerbates the issue with the thermal paste used between the...


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