Hi there.
Built a PC a few years back, and all the parts were picked out for me then by a buddy. Specs can be seen below
Recently, a buddy and I were comparing Frames and our specs and I noticed that he seemed to be getting a higher FPS whilst having the less superior components. After a bit of investigating and installing NZXT Cam, i was able to notice my CPU was only running at 3.3ghz (base clock is 4.2ghz). After some looking around in the Bios, I noticed that an XMP Profile was enabled and noticed it showing higher Clock Frequency than the base clock of the CPU. Thought this was abnormal, so I decided to disable this and see the impact it made. Sure enough, once rebooted NZXTCam was now showing the Base Clock. Decided to do a little bit more investigating of how this may have occurred, I realized that due to the XMP profile no longer being enabled, my RAM was now only running at 2133mhz (Only realizing after 3 years of using the PC, that my MOBO can only support up too 2400mhz on XMP).
Would really be interested in figuring out if there is a possibility of getting my system to run at the CPU Base Clock whilst also running XMP for that extra RAM boost without going out and purchasing a new MOBO.
Built a PC a few years back, and all the parts were picked out for me then by a buddy. Specs can be seen below
- I7 7700k
- Gigabyte GA-Gaming B8 MOBO
- 16 GB (8x2) Corsair Vengeance LPX
Recently, a buddy and I were comparing Frames and our specs and I noticed that he seemed to be getting a higher FPS whilst having the less superior components. After a bit of investigating and installing NZXT Cam, i was able to notice my CPU was only running at 3.3ghz (base clock is 4.2ghz). After some looking around in the Bios, I noticed that an XMP Profile was enabled and noticed it showing higher Clock Frequency than the base clock of the CPU. Thought this was abnormal, so I decided to disable this and see the impact it made. Sure enough, once rebooted NZXTCam was now showing the Base Clock. Decided to do a little bit more investigating of how this may have occurred, I realized that due to the XMP profile no longer being enabled, my RAM was now only running at 2133mhz (Only realizing after 3 years of using the PC, that my MOBO can only support up too 2400mhz on XMP).
Would really be interested in figuring out if there is a possibility of getting my system to run at the CPU Base Clock whilst also running XMP for that extra RAM boost without going out and purchasing a new MOBO.