Should I tweak XMP for Banishers on MSI A520M-A PRO?
Man, once I got the memory latency down, those combat stutters completely vanished—the smoothness is just unreal. Initially, the default XMP profile on the MSI A520M-A PRO was causing timings to bounce between 18-22ns, which led to a massive instruction bottleneck when the CPU was handling complex AI logic. I tried increasing virtual memory first, but that was a total fail; it actually tanked my average FPS from 65 down to 52, which was incredibly frustrating. I went back into the BIOS, locked the frequency at 3200MHz, and bumped the DRAM voltage from 1.2V to 1.35V. In AIDA64, the latency dropped from 82ns to a consistent 68-72ns, and scene transitions became seamless. I actually hit a wall trying 3600MHz and got two BSODs in a row, so I had to loosen tRAS to 42 to get it stable. Board temps are steady at 42-50℃. Memory mode switch is now confirmed and saved.
