Those who purchase fast memory modules will obviously want to get the most out of them. In this workshop, we'll explain how you should go about doing so, regardless of whether you are a novice or an experienced overclocker.

Before we begin, we'd like to make an important remark: overclocking your memory has a much lower effect on the performance of your PC than, say, overclocking your processor or graphics card. Here at Hardware.Info, we have often studied things such as the performance difference between outfitting your PC with DDR3-1600, DDR3-1866, or DDR3-2133 memory. Every time, we concluded that it is practically impossible to determine the difference using benchmarks that are not specifically tailored to memory, let alone to determine if there is a noticeable difference. We would thus recommend that "regular" users purchase more memory rather than faster memory. Hence us always putting affordable DDR3-1600 kits in our PC Advice systems.