Ram question

[doestilvoort]

Hi,

I recently have a new pc with the:

I7-6700k

Kingston predator 16GB 3000mhz kit

Asus Z170-A mobo

The ram runs at a default speed of 2333 mhz i believe or in that range, but i have the option to overclock it to the 3000nhz with the xmp profiles, only sometimes its restarts and saying that the overclock has failed, and yesterday i had a BSOD with windows 10.

someone said on this forum that he read somewhere that the xmp profiles are for haswell and not skylake, does anyone knows if this is true?

Should i just manuel overclock the ram instead of using the profiles?

[kameshss]

Just reset it to normal, You are not going to notice any differences.

[You_are_a_cunt]

Funnily enough, 2333MHz seems to be the highest stock frequency the board is capable of, any other frequency being marked as OC on their product page

 

3466(O.C.)/3400(O.C.)/3333(O.C.)/3300(O.C.)/3200(O.C.)/3000(O.C.)/2800(O.C.)/2666(O.C.)/2400(O.C.)/2133(O.C.) 

 

 

Also, the board supports XMP profiles, as per the same product page. You could try a different approach on XMP/memory OC, going from 2333 to 2400, then 2666, 2800 and finally 3000. Unsure if it will help, but it's worth a shot.

 

Any more info on that BSOD?

 

 

no noticeable difference in day to day use, though

[airdeano]

might take a bit more VCCIN voltage as like the ivy, haswell platforms to make

the higher clock speeds. usually a 1.9-1.95 at least it is not on AUTO which most

leave on and complain their overclocks are not stable.

[Analog]

This comes a lot wuth DDR4. Just because the RAM is rated to work at a certain speed doesn't mean that it will. Basically it is up to your motherboard and CPU memory controller.

[doestilvoort]

Funnily enough, 2333MHz seems to be the highest stock frequency the board is capable of, any other frequency being marked as OC on their product page

3466(O.C.)/3400(O.C.)/3333(O.C.)/3300(O.C.)/3200(O.C.)/3000(O.C.)/2800(O.C.)/2666(O.C.)/2400(O.C.)/2133(O.C.)

Also, the board supports XMP profiles, as per the same product page. You could try a different approach on XMP/memory OC, going from 2333 to 2400, then 2666, 2800 and finally 3000. Unsure if it will help, but it's worth a shot.

Any more info on that BSOD?

no noticeable difference in day to day use, though

Yeah i saw it on the product page, but it should support it then even if its a oc.

It sits now on 2666 trough the xmp profile wich seems to be good nothing happend so far, so i think i just have to do it manual then.

Don't have any info about the BSOD because all of a sudden it happend and was to late to take a picture, so that sucks

I know its a verry little diffrence is day to day use, but i just thought why not buy a higher clocked ram, diffrence is price is verry little compared to lower clocked ram.

I saw a post while back that skylake benefits from higher ram clocks in gaming, can't find it anymore else i had posted it

might take a bit more VCCIN voltage as like the ivy, haswell platforms to make

the higher clock speeds. usually a 1.9-1.95 at least it is not on AUTO which most

leave on and complain their overclocks are not stable.

Yeah, well i'm not really complaining haha ^^ just a bit frustrated that it should run at 3000mhz but it doesn't. Wich u might expect from these profiles that they work good or at least without any issues

I will manual overclock it then.

[doestilvoort]

This comes a lot wuth DDR4. Just because the RAM is rated to work at a certain speed doesn't mean that it will. Basically it is up to your motherboard and CPU memory controller.

Yeah i know, its the same with cpu's and gpu's, but if you are seeing on the product page that it suppose to support oc of 3400mhz you assume that it will run a 3000mhz overclock right? Anyway i will try to oc it manually and see if that works haha