AMD Extended Profiles for Overclocking (EXPO) and Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) are two technologies that allow memory modules to be automatically overclocked by the manufacturer. When purchasing ...

Around this time, RAM overclocking became more common place, as memory speeds were ratified, and with that came more tweaking of the front-side bus to compensate for the locked multipliers.

When it comes to RAM, most PC enthusiasts will just set an XMP or EXPO profile and forget about it. Manual memory tuning, much like what is possible on the CPU and GPU, is quite finicky and can be ...