Intel 10th gen Comet Lake-S supports "up to DDR4-2933 memory"?

[AVLNCH]

Hi all,

 

Apologies in advance if this topic has already been brought up somewhere. I have looked but don't seem to be able to find anything relevant to what I want to bring up here.

 

No doubt by now that majority of us who care will have seen the infamous screenshot from Intel's launch of the 10th gen CPU's. On that chart it shows that the LGA 1200 socket (and the 10th gen CPU's) will have a memory support of "up to DDR4-2933". Now forgive me if I'm being stupid here, but does this literally mean that the fastest memory DIMM's we can buy to use with these CPU's would be just that, 2933MHz?

 

Admittedly I've been scratching my head over this for the last hour or so and it just doesn't make any sense to me at all if it were to be the case, as mobo manufacturer's are already releasing their boards for pre-order with memory support up into the high 4000's.

 

If this isn't the case, which I strongly suspect is going to be the answer, can someone explain this to me? Why Intel says "Up to DDR4-2933"?

 

Thanks.

Edited May 7, 2020 by UponAvalanche
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[Arrogath]

just means that beyond that point it technically counts as overclocking the memory controller

[AVLNCH]

Just now, Arrogath said:

just means that beyond that point it technically counts as overclocking the memory controller

 

Oh I see. So at stock - say a 10900K - could only support up to 2933 and then beyond that the CPU's memory controller would be overclocked by the motherboard?

[Fasauceome]

AMD CPUs also support up to 2933. But you can run faster memory, it's just considered an "overclock" when you enable XMP (so don't tell RMA service!)

[AVLNCH]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

AMD CPUs also support up to 2933. But you can run faster memory, it's just considered an "overclock" when you enable XMP (so don't tell RMA service!)

Excellent, makes sense to me now.

 

Thanks.

[Arrogath]

3 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

AMD CPUs also support up to 2933. But you can run faster memory, it's just considered an "overclock" when you enable XMP (so don't tell RMA service!)

Some AMD cpus are listed with 3200 support, so if you buy one of the few 3200 jdec ram kits it is technically supported and doesn't count as overclocking. There aren't many options

[Mister Woof]

Doesn't mean much.

 

Current i3 only officially supports 2400 and i5/i7 only support 2666.

 

Obviously they all easily manage 3200 or better.

 

It's just the minimum spec and a reason to further segment motherboards.