Here is my latest news about overclocking my Ryzen setup.
Several topics will be discussed here :
- Optimisation of RAM latency
- CPU oc & RAM stability testing
- Windows Fall Creators Update impact
Back to my trial of RAM optimization, i must admit that very low latency is clearly a double edge sword...on one side, it's improving results on 1080p but computers is running some lag/stutter. Even Intel burn test was succesful...
It took me some time to figure out what was going wrong.
Thanks to HWinfo64, It's showing Windows Hardware Errors...and that's the issue. While Intel burn test is successful, Windows catched some hardware mistake on L1 cache.
I just discoever that my Overclocking @3,9Ghz @1,4375v was generating some hardware errors..
Thus I was forced to step back to 3,85Ghz @1,4375v.
Second point to check : RAM latency.
Memtest86+ or windows ram test are way too cumbersome to use.
I discovered Memtest64 from techpowerup :
https://www.techpowerup.com/memtest64/
It works like a charm. I used 30 loops (about 2hours to complete) and it works just fine.
In terms of timings, I managed to get stable RAM at 3467Mhz at 14-15-15-15-34..
Not bad at all.
It tried advanced settings...but it was way too long to optimise (especially as i don't know what are all these timings)
Globally results were ok of RAM & CPU overclocking...not great but not wonderful. (Rise of the tomb raider, 1080p, 132fps vs 125fps, ie 5,6% increase)
Now, what I didn't expect what impact of Windows Falls Creator Update (FCU)..
On Creators Update (CU) I desactivated game mode as it was leading to stutter in some games.
To be honest I was not expecting to have huge performance bump..but...but...i got BIG one..
In Rise of the Tomb raider I managed to get a 153fps vs 132fps, ie +16% increase in 1080p! However no gain in 2160p..
I guess windows 10 game mode is focusing computer ressources on games while gaming...putting all others back office tasks in sleep/low activity mode. Thus when a game is CPU bound (like ROTR in 1080p), gaming mode is quite useful..
Here is total graph with all testing :
Enjoy!