DanielVF Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 I just bought two 8 3.2mhz memory sticks for 250 bucks, expected some good gaming performance results from the videos I saw and I got absolutely no results from a cheap Kingston 8gb 2.1mhz. Is there anything wrong? I enabled XMP to 3.2mhz and still the same performance, playing GTA V. Should I buy 2x4 and perhaps get the entire FPS benefit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee Corsair Art Posted April 10, 2018 Corsair Employee Share Posted April 10, 2018 I'm afraid you could be misinformed, did you see higher frequency memory would make a big impact on gaming? -Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielVF Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 I watched a few videos on youtube like this [ame] [/ame] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowblix Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Some questions arise: Did you place them in slots 1 and 3 or 2 and 4 to use dual channel? Does your motherboard support XMP? Have you checked that XMP is actually active? (You could check DRAM frequency in a program like CPU-Z) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielVF Posted April 11, 2018 Author Share Posted April 11, 2018 Yes, 1 in slot 2 and other one in slot 4 (same color slots) Yes, I use Z-270A I enabled XMP I didn't check CPU-Z, I will check. Checked on CPU-Z, it didn't display me my graphic and memory data for some reasons, I checked it via cmd wmic memorychip get speed and it shows 2133 (twice) after I enabled XMP. I run windows 7 64bit Downloaded Speccy, and it shows me 16.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1599MHz. :| In the SPD it shows Type Unknown Size 8192 MBytes Manufacturer Corsair Max Bandwidth DDR4-2132 (1066 MHz) Part Number CMU16GX4M2C3200C16 SPD Ext. XMP I did not overclock or anything. The ram usage won't go over 1600.1mhz (after I enabled XMP which is fine?), I use DDR4 Z270-A with Kaby Lake i7 7700k Edit, I think it's actually works at 3.2mhz but I see absolutely no difference in the performance, exact same FPS whatsoever. Is the video just fake? I think the subject is related to Overclocking forum though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowblix Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Yeah they are DDR (double data rate) so 1600 is 3200 effective speed iirc Maybe the video is fake :/ or his in game settings are not the same as yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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