Overclocking memory on Intel k variants coffelake

[Islam Ghunym]

Did anyone try to overclock DDR4 memory beyond 2666 with any unlocked 8th or 9th gen intel CPU with a potato mobo like H310M from Gigabyte, ASUS, MSI or whatever. I am curious if that is possible

[porina]

Generally speaking you need a Z chipset to run ram above CPU rated speeds. I'm not aware of that policy changing. I know it was still the case in Skylake era at least, haven't tried since then.

[Islam Ghunym]

39 minutes ago, porina said:

Generally speaking you need a Z chipset to run ram above CPU rated speeds.

I have seen the option once with ASUS H310M-D motherboard to choose DRAM frequency the way I want, but raising that above 2400 on the installed locked I3 processor caused boot failure because that CPU is looked 100% the CPU, but since the option to choose the frequency there, it may mean it would work with unlocked CPUs so I am searching for someone's experience in this field.

 

39 minutes ago, porina said:

I'm not aware of that policy changing. I know it was still the case in Skylake era at least, haven't tried since then.

However I don't think that policy would ever change