Aurora R8, ram showing as 2600MHz?

You should still be able to OC from BIOS.

CPU-Z will show SPD and XMP targets.

Hello @bh353 , 

Actually, Aurora R8 came with 3200MHz Memory modules. But normally the speed stays at 2666MHz. You will have to Overclock your RAM if you want that 3200MHz speed.

I think it's clear to you now that, overclocking your memory modules will increase the RAM speed. If you don't know how to overclock RAM then you can check this post:

https://10scopes.com/ddr4-ram-overclocking-guide/ 

Thumbs up if it works for you

This guide is inapplicable to the Aurora. 

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@Homer Petersen wrote:

Hello @bh353 , 

Actually, Aurora R8 came with 3200MHz Memory modules. But normally the speed stays at 2666MHz. You will have to Overclock your RAM if you want that 3200MHz speed.

I think it's clear to you now that, overclocking your memory modules will increase the RAM speed. If you don't know how to overclock RAM then you can check this post:

https://10scopes.com/ddr4-ram-overclocking-guide/ 

Thumbs up if it works for you

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The Aurora/Alienware BIOS does not support custom RAM overclocking.  You're limited to switching between the canned SPD/XMP profiles, either via BIOS or the OC tab of AWCC.  No other user-set custom overclocking parameters are available.  

@r72019 :

This guide is inapplicable to the Aurora. 

@Homer Petersen wrote:

Hello @bh353 , 

Actually, Aurora R8 came with 3200MHz Memory modules. But normally the speed stays at 2666MHz. You will have to Overclock your RAM if you want that 3200MHz speed.

I think it's clear to you now that, overclocking your memory modules will increase the RAM speed. If you don't know how to overclock RAM then you can check this post:

https://10scopes.com/ddr4-ram-overclocking-guide/ 

Thumbs up if it works for you

 

 

The Aurora/Alienware BIOS does not support custom RAM overclocking.  You're limited to switching between the canned SPD/XMP profiles, either via BIOS or the OC tab of AWCC.  No other user-set custom overclocking parameters are available.  

Wait... you mean to say that the SPD dials on XTU is useless for the Aurora R7/R8/R9? I mean, I've never tried them before. Now you've gotten me curious. 

I'm sure @Homer Petersen already knows but RAM OC has a little caveat to it: effective speedup. That's because as DDR frequency goes up, the latency numbers have to change to match the ratio. So sometimes a bump in frequency is offset by degradation in latency. The key is to find that sweet spot of stability, clock speed, and latency.

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@GTS81 wrote:

The Aurora/Alienware BIOS does not support custom RAM overclocking.  You're limited to switching between the canned SPD/XMP profiles, either via BIOS or the OC tab of AWCC.  No other user-set custom overclocking parameters are available.  

Wait... you mean to say that the SPD dials on XTU is useless for the Aurora R7/R8/R9? I mean, I've never tried them before. Now you've gotten me curious. 

I was actually only referring to the guide on applying custom BIOs parameters through BIOs, and noting that this is not available with Dell's BIOs.  However, since you mention it, that is my understanding from others:  that Dell's BIOs on these machines is locked.  Therefore, you can play around with Intel XTU as you wish.  But if you were to select/load a custom user-defined SPD profile, or a profile that is not available in Dell's BIOs, my understanding is that Dell's BIOs will not let you save those new changes to its BIOs.  In other words, as soon as you restart the PC your RAM OC settings will be lost.  I have not tried this myself either, though, just what I've read. 

@r72019 : I can't comment on RAM OC specifically, but every time I restart my machine, AWCC + OCC overrides any XTU setting I have. If I tuned something on XTU that isn't supported by Dell's BIOS + AWCC + OCC, it gets wiped away. For example, there is no notion of -ve Vcore offset in OCC so it's a few seconds of chip-frying while I scramble to load my XTU profile.

Similarly, Afterburner and X1 GPU settings are hijacked by OCC unless the "Link" button is unchecked.

@r72019 Thanks for your info. Didn't knew about that.

But no worries, I provided him the instruction to overclock his RAM via XMP

@Homer Petersen I have been scouring for a solution to this exact problem.  If you are open to it please feel free to share with me!