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    New Aorus 17G YD True Ram speed?

    Discussion in 'Gigabyte and Aorus' started by SierraFan07, Aug 4, 2021.

  1. SierraFan07

    SierraFan07 Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm looking at getting the Aorus 17G YD with RTX 3080 and 32GB of 3200Mhz RAM and happened to see another user saying his new 11th Gen Aero Ram was not running at the appropriate 3200Mhz. Then I looked at a review on notebookcheck https://www.notebookcheck.net/Aorus...with-a-good-mechanical-keyboard.547267.0.html and there's actually a screenshot of the ram only running at 2660 and I was surprised it wasn't caught in the review. What gives?

    Edit: Looking at the photo the stock RAM is ADATA. I went to their webpage at their most recent 3200Mhz ram page shows support for 8/9/10th Gen Intel. Is it possible the stock ram itself isn't supported?
     
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  2. Dgrang

    Dgrang Newbie

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    Hi.
    I have Aorus 15 P YD (11800H - 109W and RTX3080 - 130W)

    It is totally OK. RAM is tested and can handle XMP profiles running at 3200Mhz
    But it is not fair advertising RAM as 3200Mhz when it laptop it runs at 2666Mhz. (you will see 1600Mhz or 1333Mhz because they are DDR)
    Laptop i7 11th gen processors can handle max 2666Mhz as standard frequency.
    To run higher you need to enable XMP. To enable XMP you need to change it in BIOS. To change it in BIOS you need to unlock BIOS. And there is no easy way to do it.

    When you unlock BIOS your RAM will run in XMP2 mode.
    It is running 3200Mhz without any problem
    The stock RAM installed is good and there is no reason to change it.

    Even when you find faster RAM you will not feel that in games.
    Main problem of laptops is cooling and because of that CPU/GPU throttling.
    You can try to undervolt CPU and GPU that will give you better thermals and better performance.
    And we get back to unlocking BIOS again to do it on CPU.
    But still you can do it on GPU using MSI Afterburner..