Should I lock memory frequency for Crucial DDR4 3200 in Civ 7?
Once I hit the late game, turn calculations jumped from 10 seconds to 30 seconds, which was driving me insane. The default XMP profile for my Crucial DDR4 3200 wasn't playing nice with my motherboard, resulting in high latencies of 85-100ns when processing massive map data. I tried switching to the High Performance power plan in Windows, but that did nothing for the clock drops and just made my CPU run hotter—pretty disappointing. I went into the BIOS, nudged the voltage from 1.2V to 1.35V, and forced the frequency to a hard 3200MHz while disabling all memory power-saving features. AIDA64 showed latency stabilizing at 68-74ns, and turns started processing way faster. I actually hit two BSODs while trying to tighten the timings too much, but loosening tRCD by 2 units brought it back to life. Temps were 45-52℃. Five rounds of MemTest86 came back clean.
