New Rig for 2025

By default, motherboards run RAM at the “safe” setting. This is not what was marked on the box or the label on the stick.
You have to go into the BIOS’ memory section and change the profile to run at the rated speed. This is the design, I do not know the reasoning behind it, but you must always, always go into BIOS and change it to run at the rated speed or else it will be underclocked. Whether it’s an AMD or Intel CPU changes the term used for it. It’s XMP for Intel but I can’t recall the AMD name. Change it to that and save/reboot and then it will be as rated.

You can conversely choose to run it faster and mess with the timings, but I’ve never had the patience to figure out how far is far enough. I don’t even OC the CPU anymore, although I’ve had K-class since the 2700K days which would let me. Occasionally I’ll OC the GPU using the auto drivers method, but even the auto CPU OC never seemed to really make a difference I could see.

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It’s to avoid any stability problems. Running XMP or EXPO is RAM overclocking and while these profiles have been tested with a lot of different setups and should work fine for most people, they may in fact not be stable for every hardware combination out there.

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The price for the Nova mainboard just dropped below 400 and I ordered everything but the grapics card.

I think I can wait one or two weeks longer to see if nVidia will up their game. I’m afraid availability for the new card will not normalize until summer and we most likely never will see the recommended list prices :wink:

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