kegkilla
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Runs hotter, uses more power, less headroom to be overclocked any higher. In general you shouldn't need to increase the voltage on RAM to get it to run at it's advertised speed.
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Brahma
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There should be something like below in your bios, I tried to find and MSI image but I have no idea what your bios looks like. You want to enable the XMP part, that will set your memory settings to the actual timings/speed you see on the box
Edit: An article Simple RAM Overclocking With a Few Clicks: How to Enable XMP
Brahma
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Brahma did this work? Haven’t fiddled with my new Pc at all. Curious how big you can make fonts with the new ram speed.
May your balls be stabbed repeatedly by a rusty Covid19 fork.
Every time I try to go above 3100/100 I get a blue screen.
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Hateyou
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How do you back out of that? Does it just not keep the settings in memory so a reboot fixes it?
kegkilla
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Return that shit bro.
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Brahma
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ProTip: Use your phone to take a picture of your bios windows whenever you change anything to avoid forgetting settings or losing profiles.
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Aazrael
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Like others said. Default the Bios settings and just enable XMP. Check YouTube or a guide if you don't know how, it should be easy to find in Bios though.
kegkilla
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Shucked two WD Easystores from Best Buy tonight, got 2 x WD120EDAZ. Was a bit disappointed at first not to get the EMFZ but then I realized my drives don't need the 3.3v mod and one of the two benchmarks higher than I've seen the EMFZ drives benchmark. I'm starting to think the name codes mean just about nothing.
I'm kind of pissed I bought them from Best Buy though and paid almost $40 in sales tax. I'm considering order two off of NewEgg and returning those to Best Buy to get the tax refunded.
edit: The Easystores are apparently exclusive to Best Buy, so scratch that.
I'm now having an existential crisis over whether or not it makes sense for me to give up 50% of my capacity in the name of drive mirroring.
I'm kind of pissed I bought them from Best Buy though and paid almost $40 in sales tax. I'm considering order two off of NewEgg and returning those to Best Buy to get the tax refunded.
edit: The Easystores are apparently exclusive to Best Buy, so scratch that.
I'm now having an existential crisis over whether or not it makes sense for me to give up 50% of my capacity in the name of drive mirroring.
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I do this before I begun tearing apart/rewiring anything (home or work), changing configuration settings, or disassembling anything that I don’t deal with often. Blows peoples minds when they see me do it. It blows my mind more people don’t, everyone has a top tier camera in their pocket, wtf.
Now, I happen to have a ton of leftover random pics in my phone but
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Lanx
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yea do that for everything, did that last-ish year when installing new thermostat and wifi sprinklersI do this before I begun tearing apart/rewiring anything (home or work), changing configuration settings, or disassembling anything that I don’t deal with often. Blows peoples minds when they see me do it. It blows my mind more people don’t, everyone has a top tier camera in their pocket, wtf.
Now, I happen to have a ton of leftover random pics in my phone but
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Don't trash those, stuff em in a folder somewhere with descriptive filenames of what you're looking at. Made me look like a hero a couple times at work when a contractor would come in and fuck something up.I do this before I begun tearing apart/rewiring anything (home or work), changing configuration settings, or disassembling anything that I don’t deal with often. Blows peoples minds when they see me do it. It blows my mind more people don’t, everyone has a top tier camera in their pocket, wtf.
Now, I happen to have a ton of leftover random pics in my phone but
Hateyou
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Yeah I do. Surprising how many times I’ve gone back to pictures that are 4+ years old to reference something
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So I am planning on building a pc soon within 1-2 months I think. I was initially set on a x570 board and a 3900X, with the best 3600 RAM I could find I might get a 30xx nvida card when they drop to replace my 1080. I am now also considering the 10900, and maybe the 10900K if I can find one in stock... Besides the prices of the cpus, whats going to future proof me the most? It will be overkill for what I mostly do, but I like overkill, and if I do throw something at it down the road I want to to be able to run it like a top. I also see that the new AMD chips will still work with the x570 board? So if I did go 3900X I might be able to upgrade down the road.
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