four CPU cores really isn't always enough anymore, huh
trying to stream to Discord while playing GTAV and my poor quad-core Haswell is just maxed out so much the game can't load in the road
…oh, my XMP is off
almost double your RAM speed with this one weird trick
god I'd really like to know why my board doesn't like to open the UEFI setup most of the time
did I really just get a bluescreen because of XMP
rambling
I wonder how many people have their RAM running without XMP. When my brother first got his computer (prebuilt from selected parts, it was a free offer from the store because Ryzen 2s were new and they didn't wanna send people CPUs to update their BIOSes) he couldn't turn on XMP. Took us a bit to figure out that XMP wouldn't work because one of his RAM sticks was just… bad. Was a pain in the ass to get it replaced, even though the building explicitly included testing, one would assume that they'd at least check if the mobo would post and see if all the hardware showed up…
maybe I should try to get a stable overclock on this again but I think my board is too wonky for that