Pushing for Speed

With testing out of the way, I endeavored to see if these sticks had any headroom. For Intel, I leave all settings at their XMP defaults and then increase the frequency until the system loses stability.

My sample proved to have no headroom on my Intel test bed. This is unusual given the amount of headroom I was able to achieve on my AMD test bed.


For AMD overclocking, I follow the same procedure as with Intel to find the maximum possible frequency with XMP timings. Next, I set the frequency to 3600 MHz and use DRAM Calculator for Ryzen to optimize the timings. I then bench each setting with AIDA64 to showcase what kind of benefits you can expect from each. I also included the default (non-XMP) settings as a base reference point.


I was able to get an incredible 4133 MHz out of the XPG SPECTRIX D50 on my MEG X570 ACE with the XMP default timings. Running this kit at the E-die "Fast" preset was a breeze as well.

AIDA64

Looking at the graphs, there is no consistent benefit to overclocking the frequency of this kit past the XMP settings, at least for use with Ryzen systems. Tightening up the timings did result in some small gains.