AMD Extended Profiles for Overclocking (EXPO) and Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) are two technologies that allow memory modules to be automatically overclocked by the manufacturer. When purchasing ...

RAM, like the CPU, is one of the components that determines your experience when using your PC. RAM modules are usually advertised at an overclocked speed. So, even if you buy brand new or used ones, ...

Intel introduced the consumer market to DDR4 with the introduction of the X99 platform. These are the early days of DDR4, and top kits are in the 3300MHz range, which is quite modest considering DDR4 ...

When it comes to RAM, most PC enthusiasts will just set an XMP or EXPO profile and forget about it. Manual memory tuning, much like what is possible on the CPU and GPU, is quite finicky and can be ...

Here at eTeknix we serve a wide range of readers: from casual to hardcore PC users as well as gamers, overclockers and more. As a result our readers have differing levels of technical knowledge about ...

I am not an overclocker, but the way that XMP is described makes it sound like memory is capable of far faster speeds than they are rated at, and XMP is an "unofficial standard" that takes off the ...

Even though DDR5 is still relatively new to the market, overclockers have already begun cranking its volume knob up to 11. An in-house overclocker at Gigabyte has now set the bar quite high, as he was ...