[SOLVED] Overclock of DDR3 memory 1600 to 1886 - marginal gains?

[9Juanito9]

System specs:
Xeon E5 1650 V2 (6 cores, 12 threads), overclocked to 4.2 Ghz on air (stable, tested with multiple stress testing programs)
Chinese X79 mobo (Machinist)
24 Gb memory (dual channel) - 2 x 8 Gb, 2 x 4 Gb. All 1600 Mhz
120 Gb M.2 - Windows 10 and some programs
Games on 500 Gb SSD and 2Tb hard drive
MSI Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Gaming X 6G Graphics Card

The BIOS options on the motherboard are limited; however, I can force the memory to 1886. However, I have avoided this currently as I am reluctant to mess with the memory timings.

The PC is mainly used for gaming and runs all games at 1080p at 100+ FPS.

My question is would there be any gains, other than marginal, for overclocking the memory?

In other words, would anyone bother or just leave as is.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Zerk2012]

Probably nothing you would notice on that platform.

 

[faalin]

If its running at 1600Mhz i would just leave it, if anything you might be able to tighten timings there. Having 2 different sized kits running together is hard enough, trying to OC them may cause more issues then what you want to play around with.

 

[geofelt]

Marginal, I think.
Some time ago, there was a good article on ddr3 ram speed scaling.
It may apply to your system.
Look at the real world tests like what you run; not the synthetic ones.
Looks like 1% difference at most.
I would not bother.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/7364/memory-scaling-on-haswell

 

[9Juanito9]

Thanks all for your answers. Greatly appreciated