ran my RAM at stock speeds for 2 years without knowing, enabled EXPO and im a little embarrassed

back in 2024 i built my rig with a Ryzen 7 7700X and grabbed 32gb of G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 6000. went into BIOS after installing windows, set everything up and thought i was good to go

fast forward to last week, my friend was over and we were playing Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred and he just casually goes "yo is EXPO even on?" and i was like yeah obviously. checked and it was sitting at 4800mhz the entire time. two years. two whole years

enabled EXPO, rebooted, ran some benchmarks and the 1% lows actually improved a decent amount. not even placebo its right there in the numbers

so yeah if youre on a new AMD build and never touched your BIOS after installing windows please just go check. dont be me. i had extra money specifically to go overkill on the RAM and it was just sitting there doing nothing the whole time lol