Now that Intel’s 11th-gen Rocket Lake CPUs have formally adopted memory overclocking on locked CPUs, including adding support for more budget-friendly motherboards, you might assume the behavior ...

I am not an overclocker, but the way that XMP is described makes it sound like memory is capable of far faster speeds than they are rated at, and XMP is an "unofficial standard" that takes off the ...

Stability should not come at the cost of reasonable performance ...

Intel has unveiled the first major update to its eXtreme Memory Profile (XMP) technology since the standard was introduced in 2007, bringing more profiles and (finally!) the ability to name them, too.

Enabling XMP or EXPO in the motherboard's BIOS is one of the first things all enthusiasts do after building a new PC. It's an easy way to ensure that you're getting the RAM speed you paid for, and ...

Intel just announced its 12th-gen Alder Lake platform at the Intel Innovation event. In addition to six new processors, Intel detailed some key overclocking news for the upcoming range. Marrying ...

At default your PC will always revert to 'safe' settings. For DDR4 on this platform this always is 2133 or 2400 MHz with a safe JEDEC timing in the 16 to CL 19 range. This is done so that during say a ...

RAM, like the CPU, is one of the components that determines your experience when using your PC. RAM modules are usually advertised at an overclocked speed. So, even if you buy brand new or used ones, ...

We all know that enabling Extreme Memory Profiles (XMP) can boost your system’s RAM speed. However, we have noticed that sometimes, XMP fails to work. Enabling XMP has no effect on RAM’s speed, which ...

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GIIGABYTE has typically followed a straightforward nomenclature when it comes to naming their motherboards, however, with Intel Z97, GIGABYTE seems to have tossed things up, and nowhere is this more ...