Hello all. Been googling for a decent beginner's guide to overclocking RAM and not having much luck. They all either assume too much knowledge, or are only interested in getting XMP settings working, or whatnot.
I consider myself fairly proficient in O/Cing CPU core clock, CPU cache and GPU's, but I haven't even tried O/Cing RAM yet. At this point I'm willing to give it a quick shot and see if I can get 3200 Mhz for little effort, and hoping for some tips on that.
Right now, I have a G.Skill 32GB kit (4x8GB) running at XMP settings of 2666 Mhz, 15-15-15-35-2T. I suspect I could probably get better results by tightening timings instead of just going for raw frequency, but the learning curve on how to play with those seems pretty steep. So I'm wondering if I can't just bump up voltage from 1.2 to 1.35, set it to 3200Mhz, and possibly work right off the bat. Is that unlikely? Do I need to change the primary timings to something like 16-16-18-36-2T first?
Again, I'm not looking to become a master RAM overclocker, because from all I'm reading it won't give me too much of a boost in anything I'm likely to do other than benchmarks. Just looking to see if my sticks are strong enough to take a quick-and-easy boost to 3200 Mhz. If it takes much more than an hour of tweaking, I'd probably just quit trying at that point.
If someone's willing to give me a basic "Plug these numbers in for getting from 2666 to 3200 and see if it works" tutorial, I'd appreciate it. Thanks in advance.