I have been trying to hunt around for some ram for a while now. It seems loads of manufactures seem to fudge speed of the ram if it can’t access XMP profiles. I have gotten pretty tired of having to return stick after stick because even the expensive stuff defaults to lower speeds than I have been trying to shoot for.
My goal here is to find 2 sticks that equal 32 or 64 gig’s under 200 bucks. They need to be base rated 3200 Mhz as I have a ryzen 4800H and speed means everything to the ryzen platform.
I bought a Legion 5-15ARH05H for some light gaming and dev work. I no longer have a desktop for doing things after the move so figured a thin and light would have to do. it has been great but 16 gigs of ram is horrible as windows 10 chews it up like candy at just idle.
I have tried gskill corsair adata and all kinds of ram that was rated for low voltage as for years I found always hits the rated speeds without xmp profiles.
why is non XMP profiles such a bit thing? Well XMP is an overclocking profile that seems to escape most laptops and motherboards.
Anyways here is the TLDR…32 to 64 gigs of ram that works out of the box no XMP profile needed 3200 Mhz speed and I can deal with higher clock speeds I am mainly looking for volume over speed in a way.
anyone in this hunt that has found anything good let me know.
I am unsure if I understand the problem. Most SO-DIMMs that are rated at PC4-25600S should work on 3200MT/s without XMP. I have honestly never before seen an XMP setting in a notebooks UEFI. If your notebooks UEFI has no option to set the frequency and defaults to a lower frequency than 3200MT/s you will have no option than to live with it. For example my notebooks RAM, no matter how fast the actual DIMMs are, defaults to 2400MT/s or below. That means I have to live with 2400MT/s as the maximum.
well issue is most laptop ram i have bought has been rated for 3200 Mhz speed yet as you said defaults to 2400 or lower…there is no option for XMP or timings in the bios. I have in the past found ram modules that default to the rated speeds tho (DDR 2 and 3). im lost that DDR4 is such a pain.
Your laptop is specified with being able to run 3200MT/s DIMMs. Have you made sure that your are on the most up to date version of the UEFI/BIOS? If it is not working I would contact Lenovo or look for a list of testes modules, since it should be plug in and go with this kind of hardware.
well after a quick jump to their website looks like 3200Mhz is only under xmp enable…good try tho
might have to give it a try…I have been down so many rabbit holes and having to return so many sticks lol…why ddr4 has to be such a pain. Laptop manufactures really need to remember XMP is a thing.
I have already ordered and tried 2 sticks of these and they default to 2400 MT/s without xmp profile.
I really appreciate everyone’s input for sure here.
laptop makers really should enable xmp in the bios for sure. Even more so for the ryzen platform seeing how ram speed effects performance in night and day dramatic ways.
At this point I have been back n forth with Lenovo about this and so far they have no plans to enable this. This is indeed sad as so much raw performance is being left behind for this gaming laptop.
I might have to just see about tinkering with the bios myself and it will be a huge pain…but I have had to do it before with other laptops.
Could it be more worthwhile to get in contact with RAM manufacturers and see if they can help recommending any sets that are the default speed you want.
Hat in the ring here, I bought a 16g patriot stick, PN: PSD416G320081S from amazon a while back. Runs at 2933 in a Thinkpad P1 Gen 3 (3200 with intel handicap), no xmp.
Worth a try maybe.
I’m from Canada so excuse the Canadian amazon:
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Ill have to look into it for sure. I just got email back from Lenovo HK. Finally broke down and emailed the head company. I might be getting a bios update that has XMP and fixes the boot loops lol.
