doofenschmirtz

Death and life are far more intertwined than you have been lead to believe. And you have spelled your name incorrectly.

https://greatpcreview.com/guides/cas-latency-vs-ram-speed/ If you learn about latency and RAM timings, and also how the processor/CPU interacts with memory via the controllers and kernel then you get a much deeper and valuable understanding. Most people confuse “correct configuration” with “more powaaa!”

By analogy: you have now tuned your car and it is running properly. It’s not that it has “more horsepowaaaa!” But rather it can utilize the power it does have effectively.

Has little to do with the ram and much more to do with your processor and how it handles caching and memory channels, especially considering you were using integrated graphics. (Which would be cached where?)

I’m thinking of ordering a motherboard from eBay, and similar to when one orders a used HDD, they might erase the drive or have security concerns from buying used drives because data can persist in firmware or controllers.

In that same vein I was curious if the motherboard stores data even if just for basic configs, and it sounds like it does. Is it persistent data? That would be my second question.

Most websites and academic sources and even stupid talking heads say “the motherboard is just a connector, no more!” But that’s clearly not the case.