Optimizing memory bandwidth for Soyo SY-King Dragon H510M?
The second my base grew to a certain size, the game turned into a slideshow. It was almost funny how bad it was. I realized my Soyo SY-King Dragon H510M was running in single-channel mode, cutting my bandwidth down to a pathetic 21GB/s - 25GB/s. I spent an hour updating GPU drivers three times, thinking it was a software issue, but the frames kept jumping between 38 and 110 FPS—a total waste of time. I finally rearranged the sticks to enable dual-channel and pushed the frequency from 2666MHz to 3200MHz. CPU-Z showed bandwidth jumping to 43GB/s - 47GB/s, and my 1% lows climbed from 32 FPS to 68 FPS. I actually messed up the slots the first time and the PC wouldn't even POST, until I finally read the manual. CPU temps stayed around 62°C - 68°C. The in-game performance overlay now shows a flat frame-time line, locked in at 6.2ms - 8.4ms.