Question about RAM on 11th gen Intel cpu

[RickPick]

Hi, 

recently for my birthday my brother bought me 32gb of RAM (2 x 16 Trident z G skill ram). Ram speed is 3600Mhz and the timing are CL16. 

I have an 11th gen Intel cpu (i7 11700k) and my question is: since the cpu supports only 3200Mhz, will it be a problem if I lower the speed of my Ram down to 3200Mhz or can I leave it to 3600Mhz? What should I do? 

thanks for answering!

[Levent]

2 minutes ago, RickPick said:

What should I do? 

Try running them at their advertised speeds first before coming to any conclusions.

[BetteBalterZen]

3 minutes ago, RickPick said:

Hi, 

recently for my birthday my brother bought me 32gb of RAM (2 x 16 Trident z G skill ram). Ram speed is 3600Mhz and the timing are CL16. 

I have an 11th gen Intel cpu (i7 11700k) and my question is: since the cpu supports only 3200Mhz, will it be a problem if I lower the speed of my Ram down to 3200Mhz or can I leave it to 3600Mhz? What should I do? 

thanks for answering!

I'm almost certain that your i7 will handle 3600MHz just fine via XMP

[RickPick]

7 minutes ago, Levent said:

Try running them at their advertised speeds first before coming to any conclusions.

On the Trident Z Ram box, they advertise 3600Mhz however on the manual of the motherboard they advertise 3200Mhz XD

[BetteBalterZen]

2 minutes ago, RickPick said:

On the Trident Z Ram box, they advertise 3600Mhz however on the manual of the motherboard they advertise 3200Mhz XD

Oh, if your motherboard doesn't support 3600MHz RAM, I am not sure if it will work. But I'm sure your i7 will handle 3600MHz. 

[Stahlmann]

Try XMP first. In 99% of cases it will work. If it doesn't you can still set it to 3200MHz.

[RickPick]

2 minutes ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Oh, if your motherboard doesn't support 3600MHz RAM, I am not sure if it will work. But I'm sure your i7 will handle 3600MHz. 

ok thank you

[porina]

5 minutes ago, RickPick said:

On the Trident Z Ram box, they advertise 3600Mhz however on the manual of the motherboard they adveriste 3200Mhz XD

No current CPU from Intel or AMD officially supports above 3200, but the chances are ram will work at 3600 as people have been running ram above platform supported speeds for a long time. Just turn on XMP and try it in the first instance. Of course, because it is above official support it will not be 100% sure it will work, but it will likely be fine in most cases.

[RickPick]

Just now, Stahlmann said:

Try XMP first. In 99% of cases it will work. If it doesn't you can still set it to 3200MHz.

Yeah I was thinking about doing this. Thank you!

[porina]

4 minutes ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Oh, if your motherboard doesn't support 3600MHz RAM, I am not sure if it will work. But I'm sure your i7 will handle 3600MHz. 

On that note, Intel have enabled memory OC on non-Z chipsets now. I had used 4000 on a B560 chipset.

[RickPick]

2 minutes ago, porina said:

No current CPU from Intel or AMD officially supports above 3200, but the chances are ram will work at 3600 as people have been running ram above platform supported speeds for a long time. Just turn on XMP and try it in the first instance. Of course, because it is above official support it will not be 100% sure it will work, but it will likely be fine in most cases.

Perfect! thanks!

[BetteBalterZen]

1 minute ago, porina said:

On that note, Intel have enabled memory OC on non-Z chipsets now. I had used 4000 on a B560 chipset.

Competiton ftw

[AMD A10-9600P]

11th gen can actually work with speeds higher than 3200, but that's as high as Intel "wants" you to go. 11th gen chips can normally handle 3600 perfectly fine with zero issues using XMP, and you'll get a nice performance boost there. For example, 11th gen U laptop chips often come with 4200MHz memory. Another example, for 9th gen chips, Intel only "supported" up to 2600, but my 9600KF has ran brilliantly for well over a year with 2 8GB sticks at 3200.

[RickPick]

6 hours ago, AMD A10-9600P said:

11th gen can actually work with speeds higher than 3200, but that's as high as Intel "wants" you to go. 11th gen chips can normally handle 3600 perfectly fine with zero issues using XMP, and you'll get a nice performance boost there. For example, 11th gen U laptop chips often come with 4200MHz memory. Another example, for 9th gen chips, Intel only "supported" up to 2600, but my 9600KF has ran brilliantly for well over a year with 2 8GB sticks at 3200.

ahh okok I understand. Thank you