Worth to turn on xmp or not?

Posted by Recagz@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 14 comments

Hi everyone I'm trying to ask a question about the xmp xmp thing for the ram I'm new to pc and I'm watching videos what to do when you get one and they say turn on xmp but I see some people having issues I only have a entry level setup because I only play valo and pubg it runs good but I'm just curious if I can increase my fps more if I turn it on xmp specs is Ryzen 5 5600 and A520 motherboard and

Asus 1660 ti and 16gb of ram asking if I should turn it on or not because I'm a little bit scared if I get issues thanks any reply would help

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lafsrt09@reddit

I have 32 gigs of Corsair vengeance ddr5 ram without XMP. The speed is 4,800 with XMP1 enabled. The speed is 6,000

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Competitive_Owl_2096@reddit

Yes. There is no reason to not do it. It’s an easy way to get a boost of performance.

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OfficeBaddie97@reddit

I get random blue screens when I do it

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syunz@reddit

Shouldn't happen with matching pairs or single sticks. Either your ram is bad or your cpu memory controller is bad. You should be sending it back for warranty.

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thundergoose24@reddit

I have never had xmp work at the speed the ram is advertised at. I’ve built numerous pcs and just turning xmp on has always giving me stability issues.
Playing with the voltages a little fixes it most of the time.

You might get lucky and it just works for you though. Worth a shot.

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Bottled_Void@reddit

You've looked at the QVL list of the motherboard, bought that specific stick of RAM and it's failed to perform to the tested speed?

Because it's not just the RAM speed, the motherboard has to support it.

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okifyoudontremember@reddit

QVL lists are so limited and 9/10 you won't have a problem if it's an actual ram brand, even if it's not on there.

Updating your bios has been the fix for basically every ram stability problem I've seen in the DDR4/5 era though. I remember the early b450 era boards being especially bad for needing bios updates before any sort of XMP would stick.

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HonchosRevenge@reddit

Zero reason not to unless you experience instability down the line. I had to turn it off about a year and a half after building my current rig. Didn’t do enough research on stick timing and bought something meh, too late to find out to swap it before prices cost me several organs. Maybe I’ll enable it again now that I’ve done a clean install and upgraded to Win 11 since then.

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dsanen@reddit

I find it board depending, I always get asus tuf on intel because I can get xmp to work reliably. But I don’t see impressive gains over jedec in everything after turning it on. This is the reason I did not switch to ddr5, I find that average ddr4 ram performed just as good as average ddr5.

But maybe in the future you will have really fast, super dense ddr5 sticks, and that will make a bigger difference, as much as when you compare the slowest and oldest ddr4 sticks vs the newest, and maybe see like faster editing in photoshop, or less stutters in games.

I am not a benchmarker either, I just notice that if I change my cpu to a faster one, and left the same ram, I can immediately notice performance being better. But if I use jedec or xmp, I have to pay attention to see the advantage.

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