When turning on XMP, you might notice that there are multiple different profiles that one can choose between, often at least ...

RAM, like the CPU, is one of the components that determines your experience when using your PC. RAM modules are usually advertised at an overclocked speed. So, even if you buy brand new or used ones, ...

I'm far more familiar with overclocking the big components than I am with memory, but as a learning exercise, I wanted to see how far I could push these sticks of RAM, and see if I could shave the ...

Now that Intel’s 11th-gen Rocket Lake CPUs have formally adopted memory overclocking on locked CPUs, including adding support for more budget-friendly motherboards, you might assume the behavior ...

I am not an overclocker, but the way that XMP is described makes it sound like memory is capable of far faster speeds than they are rated at, and XMP is an "unofficial standard" that takes off the ...

Before we discuss XMP, DOCP, and EOCP, it is important to know about RAM SPD. SPD stands for Serial Presence Detect. It is a chip found on every RAM module that stores the default RAM configurations, ...