Pushing the Limits (Or Not)

The Corsair Voyager a1600 does not fully support overclocking, but it does support memory speed, voltage and timing adjustments, so you can pop in G.SKill's 5200 MHz 38-38-38 kit if you like. Or maybe you prefer the 34-34-34 4800 MHz kit. That kit has a really high chance to work too. This is quite curious, and actually, a really nice feature to have included that I honestly did not expect. If you want to upgrade the ram in the future when higher speeds are released, there are options in BIOS to help you get it working, up to 6000 MHz being supported in the BIOS.

The AMD APU hardware doesn't directly support clock adjustments; rather there are adjustable power limits and a voltage curve option that are available within the BIOS for the APU, but there are no direct controls for frequency. You can also adjust down the power limit for the GPU, although I don't really know why you would want to do that.

So, you know... I like playing with memory clocking. So naturally, I played with the options in BIOS. I just cranked up the voltage and set the maximum speed and left the timings on auto and do you know what happened? Well, I got into BIOS and changed that back pretty quick because clearly that wasn't going to work for me. That was a a bit of a struggle, but I did get into BIOS eventually and then was able to reset things. That's pretty good, actually, so while I don't recommend doing it with the stock SODIMMs, Maybe other memory will be more fun to play with here.

I had given up on the memory clocking completely after that attempt; it went as I expected, and I decided to get some faster sticks to play with later. I moved on, not that interested to explore just timing adjustments, or other options, and I sat down to write this review, got started, and uploaded my pictures and screenshots and started to write. On the "hardware" page i noticed the following screenshot:



That is not stock frequency.

It was just a software bug, and I wasn't able to get higher memory speeds or lower latencies fully stable.