Review: GSKill Trident Z5 NEO 6000 MT/s CL30 EXPO

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The importance of the XMP profile:

Setup within BIOS:

We can’t say it enough, but the settings of your memory kit are not automatically set after you install it. If it is the case for your processor, it is not the case for your memory kit and a passage through the BIOS will be mandatory! You will be able to configure it manually, by choosing the right frequency, timings and voltage for your kit. For more ease, we advise you to activate the EXPO 2 mode in “AI Overclock Tuner” in order to set it up automatically.
There is also an EXPO 1 profile but personally we have tested both profiles and they give identical performances.

Without activating the profile, your performance will be impacted in all areas and you will end up with a kit that does not exceed 4800 MHz in CL40. We will therefore activate our EXPO profile directly in the BIOS as shown in the screenshots below with our ROG Crosshair X670E Gene.

The Asus BIOSes, whether on the APEX or the Crosshair models, benefit from memory profiles. They are good bases to overclock your memory kit. We will first use them in our overclocking tests. Our kit is now set up in the BIOS and will work with the manufacturer’s specifications.

As you have seen in the above captures, once the EXPO profile is activated, the settings are automatically detected. The frequency goes up to 6000 MT/s, the timings are activated and the voltage goes up to 1.35 volt.