Memory, XMP lifetime ?

[PecaCZE]

Hi,

 

I´m choosing components for new PC.

Memory XMP profile is overclocking ram plus CPU.

Does XMP profile short lifetime of memory and CPU ? 

 

I´d like to use XMP profile ( G.SKILL 32GB KIT DDR4 3600MHz CL16 Ripjaws V ) as default DDR4 runs only 2133MHz but I don´t like any overclocking as it shortens lifetime of components.

I´ve seen some numbers on youtube memory from 2133MHz to 3000Mhz makes CPU frequency from 3.0GHz to 3.75GHz, in BIOS is also CPU upgrade which I don´t know how it works.

 

Motherboard: MSI Z490 TOMAHAWK

CPU: i9-10900K

GPU: ASUS TUF GeForce 3080

 

Thanks for answer.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, PecaCZE said:

Does XMP profile short lifetime of memory and CPU ? 

Nope. 

 

2 minutes ago, PecaCZE said:

I don´t like any overclocking as it shortens lifetime of components.

Extreme overclocking or incorrectly done daily OCs, yeah. Components will be completely useless performance wise long before they degrade to the point of inoperability even from pretty aggressive manual overclocking. XMP even less so, the RAM is rated to run at the stated XMP speed/timing/voltage without issue and unless you're buying a top end 4000+ kit running at really high voltages, you won't be outside the voltage spec for your CPU's IMC (1.35v for Intel, I assume similar for AMD). 

[aDoomGuy]

31 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

(1.35v for Intel, I assume similar for AMD). 

Spot on.

[PecaCZE]

Thanks, too many details and hard to understand to me

So in conclusion XMP ( on 3600MHz ram and this build ) won´t short life of either memory and CPU ?  

I just saw some videos how in BIOS it affects CPU numbers, so I was like it´s actually overclocking and it will shorten life even by little percent.

[Zando_]

16 hours ago, PecaCZE said:

Thanks, too many details and hard to understand to me

So in conclusion XMP ( on 3600MHz ram and this build ) won´t short life of either memory and CPU ?  

XMP will be fine except on really high end OCing kits that sometimes push 1.5v XMP IIRC. The kit you're using won't do that so .

16 hours ago, PecaCZE said:

I just saw some videos how in BIOS it affects CPU numbers, so I was like it´s actually overclocking and it will shorten life even by little percent.

Oh yeah, that's a separate thing. MCE, MultiCore Enhancement. It's a thing on a lot of ASUS and some other OEM's motherboards (other OEMs may use a slightly different name for the same thing), some BIOSes will enable that by default once you turn on XMP. If it does you can just go back and disable MCE so it just runs XMP on the RAM and leaves the CPU alone, just remember that you need to check for that.