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Afraid to run XMP profile on ram with 8700K. Gskill ram.

There's no need to be "afraid".

I'd say it's very likely that the majority of the IMC's on 8700k processors can handle running ram at 3000MHz. Even the worst Z370 motherboards support those speeds too (only higher end ones - and those with 2 dimm slots like the Apex or ITX support much higher)

Anyway you're quite right that normally all you need to do is enable the XMP profile in the bios and things should be ok. However sometimes you need to adjust voltages (such as VCCSA and VCCIO, sometimes ram voltage) however 3000MHz is next to nothing so I doubt you're going to need to spend hours tweaking things lol.

Issues only really seem to happen when you're running high frequencies i.e 4000Mhz +, or trying to run 4 dimms at high frequencies, and having a high CPU overclock while pushing a high ram overclock.

You're going to be running only 2 dimms at a low overclock, so just enable XMP and enjoy.....
 
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According to my mobo anything above 2666mhz is oc. So take 2666mhz rams or just 3000mhz and enable XMP? But like i said i am scared about this. Thank you for recommend.


Recommend me rams compatible with this board. I want to be sure that all will be stable. I dont want mess with oc or XMP. I read that XMP is OC and can cause issues. My 8700K will be on stock. What will be best choice for me?

List of rams compatibility of mobo:



http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb...27.pdf?_ga=2.165306751.1925822570.1513276734-


So take:
https://www.x-kom.pl/p/312567-pamiec-ram-ddr4-gskill-16gb-3000mhz-ripjawsv-cl15-2x8gb.html

G.SKILL 16GB 3000MHz RipjawsV CL15 (2x8GB) 1.35

( enabling XMP )

Or just take 2666mhz ?


This is the last question. Thank you for patience.
 
sewerino26 said:
According to my mobo anything above 2666mhz is oc. So take 2666mhz rams or just 3000mhz and enable XMP? But like i said i am scared about this. Thank you for recommend.


Recommend me rams compatible with this board. I want to be sure that all will be stable. I dont want mess with oc or XMP. I read that XMP is OC and can cause issues. My 8700K will be on stock. What will be best choice for me?

List of rams compatibility of mobo:



http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb...27.pdf?_ga=2.165306751.1925822570.1513276734-


So take:
https://www.x-kom.pl/p/312567-pamiec-ram-ddr4-gskill-16gb-3000mhz-ripjawsv-cl15-2x8gb.html

G.SKILL 16GB 3000MHz RipjawsV CL15 (2x8GB) 1.35

( enabling XMP )

Or just take 2666mhz ?


This is the last question. Thank you for patience.
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Why are you being so stubborn.? People keep explaining to you to just enable XMP and be done with it. It’s that simple. Both your CPU and motherboard should support that ram at its XMP rated speed without any problems.
Or maybe you need it explained in your native language.?
( zamontuj ram i w biosie włącz XMP. To wszystko. Zaufaj ludziom z forum bo wiedza co mówią.)
 
Ok so i enable XMP :) Anyway what you mean "Selling 2133 ram and buying new 3000 ram in this climate makes 0 sense, massive waste of cash."

So you mean bump up my actual ram 2133mhz + ? Or performance difference?
 
sewerino26 said:
Ok so i enable XMP :) Anyway what you mean "Selling 2133 ram and buying new 3000 ram in this climate makes 0 sense, massive waste of cash."

So you mean bump up my actual ram 2133mhz + ? Or performance difference?
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The performance difference will be so small you'd need benchmarks to see a difference.
 
yeah i am just worried because Intel on his specs said memory speed: 2666mhz.

Also this is review and differences are big between 2133mhz and 2666mhz,can you look:

https://www.purepc.pl/procesory/test_procesora_intel_core_i7_8700k_premiera_coffee_lake?page=0,45

http://www.eurogamer.pl/articles/2017-10-12-intel-coffee-lake-core-i7-8700k-test

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sewerino26 said:
yeah i am just worried because Intel on his specs said memory speed: 2666mhz.

Also this is review and differences are big between 2133mhz and 2666mhz,can you look:

https://www.purepc.pl/procesory/test_procesora_intel_core_i7_8700k_premiera_coffee_lake?page=0,45

http://www.eurogamer.pl/articles/2017-10-12-intel-coffee-lake-core-i7-8700k-test

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Don’t worry what intel say about memory speed. It is just what they guarantee. They also only guarantee that 8700K will run at stock speed when in fact all of them can run faster.
And yeah 2133mhz ram is too slow these days.
 
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10% is a pretty nice improvement for just running ram at it's rated speed.......
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Sure, and if 16GB of DDR4 was still sub £100 then the move would be ok but how much is he going to pay for a 16GB kit of 3000mhz memory? That's a pricey 10% boost.
 
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Sure, and if 16GB of DDR4 was still sub £100 then the move would be ok but how much is he going to pay for a 16GB kit of 3000mhz memory? That's a pricey 10% boost.
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Meanwhile in other threads people are willing to pay £300+ for a ryzen 2 cpu for a similar performance increase.
 
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This thread should be renamed "I don't like the answer as it doesn't agree with my pre-conceptions so I'll keep rephrasing the question"...
 
If you want to be 100% positive it will work, just buy 2666mhz ram. The difference between that and 3000mhz ram will be tiny and probably unnoticeable and then you can be happy you are running everything within specification.
 
My motherboard on default bios settings runs ram at 2133Mhz.

My personal opinion now is that if you’re running the 8700k stock and “afraid” to run ram at higher than 2666Mhz is you should have bought an 8700, lower speed ram and waited for the lower end non-over clocking chipset motherboards.

This thread is literally going around in circles. I appreciate you’re worried about damaging your hardware but it’s very rare to damage any components by overclocking.

Enabling XMP will NOT damage hardware. It simply runs the settings on the SPD of the ram. I.e the rated timings, frequency and voltage.
 
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