5th July 2021, 1:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 5th July 2021, 1:19 AM by David. Edited 3 times in total.)
(5th July 2021, 12:55 AM)Fresh Cookies Wrote:
my 240hz monitor can only run at 120hz because i need a displayport cable whoops, i should probably fix that. managed to convince myself i had been running at 240hz lmao
anyways once i grow some energy i'll do a chip swap back to a 3700x that i literally just have on my old motherboard
tbh there's a lot looking at speccy i don't think is right (why is my ram 1333mhz and not 3600mhz?) but whatever, i'm trying to not upgrade this computer at all and it's still working wonderfully
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You shouldn't need DisplayPort to get 240Hz out of that monitor, I don't know if HDMI 1.4 supports 240Hz but your monitor also has a HDMI 2.0 port so I'd try switching HDMI ports and see if you can get 240Hz then (could also be the HDMI cable itself not supporting the bandwidth). If you do get 240Hz switching ports you might want DisplayPort anyway as I don't think NVIDIA cards support FreeSync over HDMI, just make sure whatever DisplayPort cable you get is Vesa Certified
As for your RAM, Speccy and a lot of other programs show the true clock speed. DDR transfers data on the rising and falling edges of a clock signal so it's effective speed is double what the clock speed actually is and is what's labeled and advertised on RAM. So your RAM is running at 2666 effectively which indicates to me that you didn't enable XMP in the BIOS or it reset somehow, RAM generally won't run at it's advertised speed without manually enabling it's XMP profile so you'll wanna do that as you're unknowingly missing a good bit of performance (many people miss this)
