I5 10600kf with 3200 memory

[OwayBaway]

The spec for the i5 is DDR4 2666 MHz, if I use a z490 board can u run at 3200  as I have a kit rated for that speed I am going from a non k i7 7700, that’s why I have that kit, will I be able to take advantage of my higher speed ram

[Semper]

Just so that I understand correctly, what you're doing here:

You currently have 7700. You're upgrading to a 10600kf. The memory that you're planning on running is rated for 2666, you want to run it at 3200, Is all this correct?

If so, Z series boards should support overclocking, yes, but you're going to be doing manual tuning as you shouldn't have an XMP profile above 2666. Reaching 3200 is not guaranteed.

[Mister Woof]

Yes

[Stahlmann]

7 hours ago, Semper said:

Just so that I understand correctly, what you're doing here:

You currently have 7700. You're upgrading to a 10600kf. The memory that you're planning on running is rated for 2666, you want to run it at 3200, Is all this correct?

If so, Z series boards should support overclocking, yes, but you're going to be doing manual tuning as you shouldn't have an XMP profile above 2666. Reaching 3200 is not guaranteed.

OP is running a 3200MHz rated kit, but ran it at 2666MHz because he had a locked CPU with the 7700 non K.

 

@OP

Yes you can run it at 3200MHz with the 10600KF and a Z-Series board.

[OwayBaway]

8 hours ago, Semper said:

Just so that I understand correctly, what you're doing here:

You currently have 7700. You're upgrading to a 10600kf. The memory that you're planning on running is rated for 2666, you want to run it at 3200, Is all this correct?

If so, Z series boards should support overclocking, yes, but you're going to be doing manual tuning as you shouldn't have an XMP profile above 2666. Reaching 3200 is not guaranteed.

I have an unrelated question, i see alot of people with the 4790k in their system, does it still run fast?

[Mister Woof]

2 minutes ago, OwayBaway said:

I have an unrelated question, i see alot of people with the 4790k in their system, does it still run fast?

It's decent and I would not necessarily upgrade depending on your use case.

[Semper]

2 hours ago, OwayBaway said:

I have an unrelated question, i see alot of people with the 4790k in their system, does it still run fast?

It's still a capable platform, but it's starting to show it's age in some aspects. Intel has essentially been reselling binned higher-clockspeed Skylake generation (6th gen) chips.
Skylake isn't wildly more capable than Devil's Canyon (4'th generation), which in itself was a Haswell Refresh.
A number of factors, most prominently being complacency depending on who you ask, stagnated Intel's progression to nothing more than mediocre generational improvements. AMD "snuck up" on Intel with a surprise butthole inspection with the release of Ryzen, and Intel's response thus far has been fairly lackluster. Third gen Ryzen is trading performance blows with Intel's 10'th gen at a lower price point.

There's meaningful performance across the board (workstation and gaming) to be had by upgrading from my 4790k, but not enough to justify the $800+ I'd be spending to upgrade.