i was wondering if overclocking the memory can damage the mainboard
i have jskill 3600mhz cl16 ram downclocked the memory to 3200 and got tighter timings but it wasn't noticeable
although i clocked my ram to 4000mhz and the difference was noticeable but now i wonder can it damage my motherboard the memory doesn't bother me

mb: asus b 550 f gaming
cpu: amd 3800x @ 4.4ghz v1.2875
ram jskill 3600mhz @ 4000mhz 1.35

 

I dont think so, did you check the temp after doing the overclock? Noticed any changes on motherboard temps? If you don't know how to check it (I bet you know but anyway) try using HW monitor or AIDA64

I just checked the specs, so it says it can go up to 4600mhz, so you should be fine in 4000
- 4x DIMM, max. 128 GB, DDR4 4600 (OC) / 4400 (OC) / 4133 (OC) / 4000 (OC)

 

Last edited: Feb 28, 2021

Asus make great motherboards, I clocked my RAM at its maximum stated frequency and haven't looked back since. Worst case scenario is that windows will freeze if you clock it too far, so you will need to go back in to the BIOS and drop the frequency so you get a stable run. Test it with something like Memtest64 to check how stable it is.

 

No you would damage the memory controller on the actual cpu long before the motherboard. But if you're not running too high of voltages and your temps are under control then you'll be fine. (1.3v CPU, 1.1v SOC, 1.3v RAM, are generally considered safe for the long term with ryzen)

By the way, you can actually get better performance if you downclock your ram to 3600 and tighten the timings. Ryzen cpu's have a system to talk with the memory, the Infinity Fabric or "FClock". But FClock can't run higher then 1800Mhz. And FClock also runs the best when it's at a 1:1 ratio with your memory clock "MClock" At 4000Mhz your ram's MClock is actually running at 2000 Mhz. This is because DDR ram has 2 data cycles per clock cycle (DDR=Double Data Rate) The 4000 Mhz refers to the amount of data checks, since there's 2 per clock cycle, your actual ram clock speed is half whatever MHz you choose. So if you drop your ram's speed to 3600, its MClock will drop 1800, and be at 1:1 with FClock. Which will actually have a fairly noticeable effect on performance, especially if you can get tighter timings. I explained this pretty briefly, if you want more detail google "ryzen infinity fabric ratio".

TL;DR Drop your memory down to 3600MHz, tighten the timings, and you'll actually get better performance on Ryzen than at 4000MHz

 

Nah dude doesnt worth it
The way I do my overclocking is I use nvidia inspector and I can overclock my laptop GPU +135 MHZ and I can overclock my GPU memory with +650 MHz
its much more snappier and faster so basically this overclocking makes my GTX960m perform like a GTX1050 laptop version
Ableton and Cubase 11 uses my GTX GPU and both DAWs run much faster and more responsive

 

dont fucking doit not worth it if you get it wrong it can fuck up royaly just put iti n xmp mode and leave it

 

XMP is not a thing for Ryzen. Ryzen uses DOCP (Direct OverClock Profile)

 

with realbench my temps dont go higer then 65-70
the all core overclock is stable

I have the memory on standard d.o.c.p profile 3600mhz tested and manual timings
i used ryzen dram calculater also downclocked the memory to 3200mhz with tighter timings
but 4000 is more snappy in windows 10 the only downside with aida the latency is higer

my fabric clock is 2000
timings 19-19-19-36 4000mhz