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Why is 3600mhz still the recomended ram speed for a 5600x when AMD states the max speed is 3200?

Nexxus
By Nexxus
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I assume this is whatever amds equivalent of XMP is letting it run faster? The wording to me just seems like "No this is the hard limit of the ram speed" At leasat with the retailer I was looking at.

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3600mhz is the best because it runs 1:1 to the frequency of the memory controller. Hence why people recommend it. Even without xmp it should run at 3600mhz normally

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3200 is the officially supported speed. If you run JEDEC 3200 speed/timing modules and it doesn't work, AMD will warranty it.

 

If you stick in 3600 ram, and it doesn't work, don't go crying to AMD. It is an overclock. There are many threads on this forum where people have encountered exactly this problem. It is not officially supported. If it works, great, but its not 100% certain. 

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