Learn about AMD’s extensive Overclocking profiles

DDR5 has brought many changes and the Z690 chipset has brought even more, namely the big first boot as it trains the memory to best interface with the Ryzen chip it now hosts. AMD EXPO is intended to help you transition to the new platform, as it is designed specifically for this purpose. Thanks to it being an open standard. Intel could also adopt EXPO if it wanted to.

The 30-36-36-76-112 timings on the Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 are also good to see as they are tighter than many others. TechPowerUp tested it with a Ryzen 9 7950X and Gigabyte’s X670E AORUS Master motherboard. The Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 kit fared well compared to other kits, and while Intel users may appreciate that it can be overclocked to 7GHz, that’s not particularly useful for the new Ryzen chips with a 6GHz sweet spot . What you might like is the small performance boost they saw from manually lowering the CAS slightly.

Overall, EXPO seems to work as it should and gives you great performance without having to manually adjust frequencies and timings in your BIOS.