A Beginners Guide: What is XMP? and How To Enable Your RAM's XMP.
A Beginners Guide: What is XMP? and How To Enable Your RAM's XMP.
After buying/installing new RAM into your computer it’s important to know how to enable your RAM’s XMP profile (eXtreme Memory Profile) otherwise you’ll be missing out on performance you paid good money for. This video is designed to teach those new to PC DIY what an XMP profile is, why you want to enable your RAM’s XMP profile and how to do it. It’s actually a very easy thing to do but when you’ve never done it before I understand how it can seem a little intimidating. I hope to set you mind at ease by saying there’s nothing to worry about; as you follow along with this guide you’ll be able to easily get your RAM’s XMP profile enabled and have your new RAM running at full speed in no time.
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Time Stamps
0:00 – intro
0:59 – What is XMP?
1:25 – What does XMP do?
2:41 – 2133MHz is the base speed of DDR4
3:21 – Why should I enable XMP?
4:13 – How to boot into your motherboard BIOS/UEFI
4:45 – How to enter BIOS from Windows 10
5:49 – Enable XMP Easy Mode Aorus X570 Ultra (AMD Ryzen)
6:55 – Enable XMP Advanced Mode Aorus X570 Ultra (AMD Ryzen)
7:40 – Enable XMP Asus X470-f Gaming (AMD Ryzen)
7:55 – What is D.O.C.P?
8:47 – Enable XMP Easy Mode Asus H310i-Plus (Intel 8th & 9th Gen)
10:14 – Enable XMP Advanced Mode Asus H310i-Plus (Intel 8th & 9th Gen)
10:56 – Thanks for Watching! Like, Share, Comment & Subscribe! 🙂
Music in this video – “Flames” by Dan Henig from the YouTube Creator Studio Music Library
Cant find Ai Tweaker in my bios for some reason, doesn’t have it as an option. i have an Asus G20CB not sure why I cant do this. Any thoughts?
What if my ai overclock tuner still in auto and my memory frequency is already above 2133mhz it’s 2666mhz already….its the top speed of my ram
Love the Video man great job on trying to explain everything even to the people who dont really no what ram is. I was scared about entering the BIOS and trying to get the most out of my ram as i didnt want to cause any problems with the PC. Great job again.
Agent Smith voice style ?
Thanks a lot, when I turned xmp on, the ram only works at 2666 instead of the supposed 3200 and I just couldn’t understand why, thanks to you now I know it’s because of my core i3 🙂
I have 4 sticks of ram both 8 gb a stick and I did this 3 months ago and it worked I Just bought new ram Today All Ram sticks are 8gb but when I tried enabling XMP it would restart and restart again and keep the same speed of 2133 which was not a problem previously anyway I can fix it?
my BIOS don’t look like this
You are the best
Why motherboards dont do that automatically?
it looks like keyboard from redragon S101
I HAVE DDR4 2666 CAN I XMP IT OR IT WON’T MAKE DEFRANCE?
I have an Asus board and no matter how many times I turn xmp it won’t save to 3600hz
i was wondering if you can do this on hp?
I’m not getting any of these options in my Asus ROG. Any idea where can I find these?
I dont have that
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You didnt mention how lots of RAMs dont operate at their advertised speed, which makes this video useless for lots of people 🙂
I have a crosshair vii hero and a ryzen 7 5800x but whenever i put my ram to 3600mhz it just restarts a few times then resets to 2133mhz. Everything seems compatible from what ive seen and i have enough power any answers? Would appreciate it
I got issue, when i save and exit and reboot the pc it wont actually start, i mean i can see that the pc is on but the monitor stay off, and the only way to start it again is to force shutdown with bllding the power off button and then start it, but in that case the settings wont be saved… Any idea?
Thanks for the vid! It really is very helpful…
what if I dont have xmp option in bios
why is there no option for profiles in my bios?
Its really helps
Thank you. I understand the XMP process now. You are the best.
I bought a prebuilt and it came with 1 32gb 3200mhz stick and 1 32gb 3600mhz stick. So do i set it to 3200 or 3600?
Omg I’ve been scared to over clock my ram, thank you so much!!! You now have a life long fan and subscriber, and if you have merch please let me know!!!! Thank you!!!!
Great video! You have a new subscriber.
I activated it but when I clicked save and exit it when into a boot loop turning off and on 3 times before finally turning on except the ram was still at 2133mhz. Is there anything I can do?
Will this help with my FPS I was running 250 done a update for the driver n I lost 120 FPS but can’t reverse it
My asus z590 motherboard is running the ram for my i7-11700k at 2666ghz but I’m afraid to turn XMP on I heard people saying it will void the CPU warranty, is basically overclocking, etc and even if your cpu does support higher speeds (which it does, 3200ghz) i’ve heard you should configure the RAM manually since XMP is sometimes buggy and won’t configure the RAM settings right.
I did this now my pc doesn’t work
Nice done it 12 times in my life and finally this time I fuked everything up for what ever reason I have no drivers no internet and can’t install any drivers with USB no clue what went wrong but nothing is fixing it. Fml
That bullshit i got 2400 dd4 xmp on or off my memory still run at 2400 not 2100 i try off still run at 2400 i turn on xmp still run at 2400 but wen i got xmp on i can choose speed like 2500 2600
Hey I’m still having issues, when I set my ram to it’s XMP profile (3200) it’s GSKILL trident z 3200. When I set the xmp profile my pc just keeps power cycling and then it doesn’t post/boot. Just keeps bringing me to bios and defaults the ram speed to 2133
Yo my Mainboard wasmaking weird sounds when i’m trying to overclock it to 3600Mhz
and if I have a RAM which has 4200 MHz and the motherboard keeps a maximum of 4000mhz and the XMP profile automatically gives either 4200mhz or 4100mhz and then the computer turns off. Can you help me somehow?
Can we do it on intel 7th gen ?
When he explained the initial E and X and suddenly it goes BOOM , in the midst of bursting in laugh, i scroll down and hit the subs . Love it!
can you enable xmp on windows 11
Thanks so much
I need some help, my mobo is asus h110m-k, i just buy a new RAM with the same freq. and gb .. my monitor is not working when i put the two RAM’s .. when i only put solo RAM (Old and New RAM) its both working… What should I do?
I have a ASRock motherboard what is the difference between AUTO XMP and profile one? I’ve been searching the internet and no one seems to mention what the AUTO setting does.
You are the only channel I understand sir
Um sir what if I can’t see the UFI settings or whatever it’s called while I’m rebooting? Then what should I do?
very useful🔥🔥
It won’t show up an enable button
I spent 45 usd on 1 stick of 4gb ram
hey um i have a question. can you overclock an hp desktop/cpu and if you can please tell
I need for asrock i cant find a vid for asrock and i dont know if this is similar to asrock
for me it didnt worked dont know why everytime i enable it it jsi stays at where it was