Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 32GB 5200MHz Memory Review

Overclocking

When overclocking memory, it can be done in a variety of ways including increasing the frequency, slackening timings and changing the relevant voltages. Of course, a combination of these measures can also be done to get the very best performance. When we overclock memory in our reviews we go for all out frequency. This is primarily done by tweaking the DRAM frequency within the BIOS. To do this, we take the default clock speed, which we set based on the JEDEC profile, or via XMP if the memory modules allow it, and then increase the DRAM frequency step by step while keeping timings and voltages the same as per the JEDEC or XMP profile. Once we increase the frequency, we boot into Windows and test stability using AIDA64’s built-in memory benchmark test. If the overclock is stable, we boot back into the BIOS and further increase the frequency of the modules and re-test for stability.

In total we managed to gain 200MHz in frequency on the Vengeance kit before the computer started crashing, the crashing we experienced was blue screening upon start-up. While we could have adjusted timings and voltage to try to reach higher speeds but our goal in overclocking isn’t to reach the highest possible results but instead to find what an average user could expect from the most basic level of overclocking.

The results come as no surprise as the higher clock speed of our overclocking gets better scores. The results become a surprise in the latency section, the higher clock speed had the worst latency even though between 5200MHz and 5333MHz there was an improvement in latency.