Should I lock memory frequency for Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200?
Sprinting through the ancient capital felt amazing until the memory bandwidth hit a wall and the fluidity just vanished. It was almost exciting to think about rebuilding my whole PC. The memory controller on my Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200MHz was swinging between 22-28 GB/s during heavy texture streaming, causing random loading hitches of 120-180 ms. I first tried disabling all Windows indexing services, but the lag persisted. Software tweaks were completely pointless here. I went into the BIOS and locked the frequency at a hard 3200 MHz instead of leaving it on Auto, and bumped the voltage to 1.35V. AIDA64 showed read speeds climb from 24.1 GB/s to 26.8 GB/s. I did get a couple of blue screens initially, but loosening the timings from 16-16-16 to 18-18-18 fixed everything. RAM temps are now 44-50℃ and the motherboard is around 40-46℃. I've switched the performance mode in the driver panel and it's finally stable.
