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 ...

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 ...

Intel XMP (Extreme Memory Profile) is a technology that lets you overclock your computer's RAM in the BIOS to push the performance further than what's typically allowed straight out of the box. You ...

You can enable the XMP performance profile on most motherboards, including AMD boards, directly from the BIOS settings. XMP, also known as Extreme Memory Profile, is ...

Being somewhat of a memory addict, I couldn’t help but be intrigued with OCZ’s announcement of Intel XMP modules early last month. It was the first I had heard of the technology, as Intel kept ...

At default your PC will always revert to 'safe' settings. On a Z170 / Intel Skylake DDR4 platform your memory will be configured at what is called an SPD JEDEC setting, the safe setting. For DDR4 on ...

We've talked a lot about CUDIMMs, or Clock Unbuffered Dual Inline Memory Modules over the past week or so, but that's not the only development in memory. In what we hope becomes a trend, memory makers ...

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So I just got my new computer parts, and I spent time last night getting it set up. I did notice a couple of things that I wanted to post about, so hopefully someone knows what's up. First of all, I ...

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 ...