XMP Memory Profiles as Fast As Possible
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·Techquickie
·2013-05-07
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So, you're trying to shop for RAM and there's all these terms CL10 1333 MHz
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1.65 volts.
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All that stuff just needs to go away because we're going to tell you how XMP
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makes your life a lot easier if you're using an Intel platform. Now, you can
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buy the highest performance memory in the world, but by default, motherboards
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will set it to a safe setting, a safe
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profile that is guaranteed to boot by default. This is to ensure that you get
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an opportunity to go into the motherboard BIOS and reconfigure things
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manually if you need to because if it just doesn't turn on at all, then it's no good to anyone. However, once you're
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in there, if you want to set it to run at its proper speed, at the rated
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speeds, you can either dial everything in manually the way we used to, or you
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can just set up an XMP profile. Most high performance memory comes with at
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least one XMPP profile, sometimes two. And as long as your motherboard supports
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XMPP, which most of the performance grade Intel motherboards do, then it's
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as simple as dialing it in and all those settings are done for you. Within the
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UEFI of your motherboard or the BIOS, it's usually very simple to find the
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XMPP settings. But if you're not sure, you can always consult your manual. So,
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it might be called extreme memory profile or XMP or memory profile. And
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then you'll be able to scroll through something that'll say auto or and then
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like profile one and profile two. and it'll actually give you a preview of
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what it's going to run at before you press F10 to commit the changes and
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reboot the computer. But the one thing to note about XMPP is
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that if you fully populate all of the module slots on your motherboard, your
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XMPP profiles might not be fine-tuned for that unless you buy a multi-dim kit.
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So on this motherboard, for example, if we bought two two stickked kits and ran
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it in XMPP, it might not work. Whereas if we bought one four stick kit, it
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would be guaranteed to work. As always guys, don't forget to subscribe to
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