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[resolve_beta]

if i have a cpu that limits to 3200mhz and i overclock my 3200 ram to 3600 what happens

[CryingWimp]

All new platforms are limited by the motherboard not the CPU. Except Intel i3's or lower, they are locked. If your motherboard allows memory overclocking you can overclock as high as you'd like until your unstable.

[svmlegacy]

3 minutes ago, resolve_beta said:

if i have a cpu that limits to 3200mhz and i overclock my 3200 ram to 3600 what happens

If you have a system that supports OC'ing, and your parts are capable of that speed, it will run at 3600.

[Brooksie359]

10 minutes ago, CryingWimp said:

All new platforms are limited by the motherboard not the CPU. Except Intel i3's or lower, they are locked. If your motherboard allows memory overclocking you can overclock as high as you'd like until your unstable.

Unless you have a crap memory controller like on ryzen 1st and 2nd gen where although it technically could support faster ram on the motherboard it was severely limited by the cpu making most common ram overclocks unstable. Granted you did say until unstable but I find people sometimes forget that this could be possible at the speeds like 3000 or 3200 mhz. Some people thinking they had a bad memory kit because their ryzen 1st gen couldn't do 3200mhz when that was super common and the result of not so great memory controllers of ryzen 1st gen.

[Seyrren]

36 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

Unless you have a crap memory controller like on ryzen 1st and 2nd gen where although it technically could support faster ram on the motherboard it was severely limited by the cpu making most common ram overclocks unstable. Granted you did say until unstable but I find people sometimes forget that this could be possible at the speeds like 3000 or 3200 mhz. Some people thinking they had a bad memory kit because their ryzen 1st gen couldn't do 3200mhz when that was super common and the result of not so great memory controllers of ryzen 1st gen.

Those weren't even that bad on the AMD FX side it was even worse, forget about OCing ram you needed to raise the MC voltage just to have a stable OC on the CPU...