Should I change Gear mode for G.Skill DDR5 6400 in Avowed?
While sprinting through the woods, the screen would occasionally just freeze for a split second, which completely ruins the combat flow. The G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 6400 was unstable in Gear 1 after enabling XMP, causing the system to constantly run error corrections in the background, with frame times swinging between 14-32ms. I tried updating every single chipset driver in Windows, but I only gained about 2 FPS—basically nothing—which proved the bottleneck was at the hardware sync level. I went into the BIOS, forced the memory into Gear 2, and nudged the VDDQ voltage from 1.25V to 1.35V. In RTSS, the frame time curve immediately flattened out to 11-15ms, and the drops vanished. Interestingly, locking Gear 2 initially cost me about 5GB/s in bandwidth, so I had to manually overclock the frequency to 6600MHz to get that back. Temps are between 55-63℃. MemTest86 confirmed the sync is now perfect, and frame times are rock steady at 11-15ms.
