Overclocking
Disclaimer: Overclocking is never guaranteed so that the results may vary depending on certain conditions and various hardware configurations. I am not recommending overclocking if you do not know what are you doing. High voltages may damage hardware, and it will not be covered by warranty.
We wanted to check two scenarios for overclocking so the best settings at default memory clock, which is DDR4-3600 and the highest frequency at tighter timings which will provide the best performance.
Our first setting is DDR4-3600 CL14-19-19-38 1N and 1.45V. It’s a pretty good result considered the used voltage and Hynix memory IC. Those users who for some reason, can’t set higher memory frequency will find it fast and optimal for nearly everything on the Ryzen 3000.
The best setting possible on our memory kit and still not high voltages is DDR4-3800 CL16-19-19-38 1N and not much higher than the default, 1.40V. It’s a setting not possible on most new competitive memory kits at a reasonable price. Some readers may say that higher binned Samsung memory is better. Probably yes, but also the price is much higher while overall performance is not much higher. I guess that saved money is better to invest in faster graphics card as RAM won’t be the weak point of the gaming PC.
