Why You Should Overclock Your RAM

Why You Should Overclock Your RAM (It’s Easy!)

I did not know that you could do this. Does anyone here routinely do this with their hardware?

Me, I like my computer to work 100% reliably, day in, day out. I even only use CPUs that support ECC memory.

If you like living on the edge, and having BSODs occur randomly, day to day, then overclocking is just up your alley.

Compumind said:

There's no real point to performing an OC on RAM, even if you can do it.

I'm quickly losing respect for How-To Geek.

Add to that a lot of sites. Even BC is buying into some of the FUD out there. Abrams will probably block me after I pointed out that there is no backdoor unlock in iOS.

OC your ram for the longest time was not worthwhile as most app never see the performance increase, only benchmarks show big numbers.
That has changed a little over time, modern games do see now some increase, but it depends on settings like res and your HW. Ryzen gets a boost with memory freq because of the mesh fabric *communication between core modules).

Just like OC your CPU it depends on how hard you push things if you want 100% stable you need to back max OC down.
Now with ram OC, even more, time and testing are needed, it might not be worth time as it takes a long time with so many settings.

What I do is I test with a bootable USB stick with memtest on it, so "if" any issues I see them before booting into OS were things could go sideways fast if you don't know what you're doing.

For 95% of users, it probably not worth your time.

PS: Oh the article is bad, cause it makes it seem so easy to OC ram, which it is but validating and testing is not.