Is it worth tweaking memory timings on ASRock H310CM-ITX/ac?
Whenever I entered a massive firefight, my FPS would dive from 50 down to 18, making the controls feel like I was playing through mud. The H310 chipset on this ASRock board struggles with massive entity counts, and memory controller latency spiked to 110-130ns, leaving the CPU starving for data. I tried cranking the virtual memory up to 64GB, but that actually made things worse by creating disk I/O conflicts, which was honestly infuriating. I eventually went into the BIOS and loosened the memory timings from 16-18-18-36 to 18-20-20-38 and bumped the voltage to 1.35V for better stability. In side-by-side tests, my 1% lows jumped from 15 FPS to 32 FPS, and scene transitions felt way smoother. I noticed some weird hitching during boot after the tweak, but disabling Fast Boot in the BIOS cleared that right up. Memory temps are stable at 45-52℃. Performance analyzer confirms the latency has finally converged.
