[SOLVED] AMD Ryzen 5 2400g Ram Overclocking?

[djjockquite]

I just bought a custom amd ryzen 5 2400g 2x4gb ram, ddr4-3000mhz and a asus a320m-km mb. i know it's not recommended to try to overclock the ryzen 5 2400g with a asus a320m-km mb and i'm fine with that. i was not planning to. but since i upgraded the ram to 3000mhz would i have to overclock the ram speed in the bios or asus suite 3? or just leave everything at stock? i want to get the best out of my system while animating and gaming so what would be the safe way and best way without messing up anything or burning up my system?

 

[anotherdrew]

There is nothing wrong with overclocking on the asus a320m-km or any other quality made motherboard. It's just that hard core overclockers want to take CPUs to their bleeding edge and it might not the right choice for that. If you want to do a mild overclock and the system stays stable, then great ... enjoy.

I understand you bought 3000 MHz RAM ... a fine choice. In BIOS, you would select one of the XMP profiles (there might be more than one, depending on your memory) to run the RAM at 3000. Your motherboard literature refers to this as an overclock because the memory controller (which is on the CPU) will have to be overclocked (BIOS will take care of it for you) and they will not guarantee it will work. Avoiding "burning up" your system is all about heat management. Good case ventilation and a decent CPU cooler should do the trick, but the best thing is to monitor CPU temperatures. They should be around 35 C at idle and under 80 ish when working hard. These are really guidelines becuase the reported temperature are approximate (+/- 5C normally). If temperatures are fine, but the system is not stable (crash, bluescreen, errors, etc), then you may need to be less aggressive.

 

[djjockquite]

There is nothing wrong with overclocking on the asus a320m-km or any other quality made motherboard. It's just that hard core overclockers want to take CPUs to their bleeding edge and it might not the right choice for that. If you want to do a mild overclock and the system stays stable, then great ... enjoy.

I understand you bought 3000 MHz RAM ... a fine choice. In BIOS, you would select one of the XMP profiles (there might be more than one, depending on your memory) to run the RAM at 3000. Your motherboard literature refers to this as an overclock because the memory controller (which is on the CPU) will have to be overclocked (BIOS will take care of it for you) and they will not guarantee it will work. Avoiding "burning up" your system is all about heat management. Good case ventilation and a decent CPU cooler should do the trick, but the best thing is to monitor CPU temperatures. They should be around 35 C at idle and under 80 ish when working hard. These are really guidelines becuase the reported temperature are approximate (+/- 5C normally). If temperatures are fine, but the system is not stable (crash, bluescreen, errors, etc), then you may need to be less aggressive.

thank you for the response. i have been worrying myself about a day now and if it helps my psu is cooler master lite 500 watts 80 plus and i have a rosewill dual fans microATX mini tower case. and i have seen a few people say don't go over 1.45 voltage when overclocking ram i think.. I'm new when it comes to all of this, this is my first time buying a custom pc.

 

[anotherdrew]

Messing with voltages is getting into the bleeding edge type of overclocking. For what you want to do, you don't have to mess with voltages at all. If you bought 3000 MHz RAM, then running it at 3000 MHz is not overclocking the RAM, just the controller.

 

[djjockquite]

Messing with voltages is getting into the bleeding edge type of overclocking. For what you want to do, you don't have to mess with voltages at all. If you bought 3000 MHz RAM, then running it at 3000 MHz is not overclocking the RAM, just the controller.

ok thank you so much for the info and help.