Ram compatibility

[NovelHawk]

I'm installing DDR4-3600 Mhz 2x8G on a Asus b150 gaming with a i7-6700.

Looking online it seems like both CPU and MB support DDR4-2133. I've fried a CPU's memory controller in the past so I'm asking here to double check.

Also IIRC 2133 is only achievable with XMPP, I'm assuming it's safe to enable no matter how old the hardware is right? or should I keep XMPP disabled and go with the base Mhz?

 

Thanks

 

[Chris Pratt]

3600MHz isn't going to fry your system. However, you can't enable XMP on a B150 board, so the max you can do is the 2133MHz it supports stock. You need a Z mobo, prior to the 500 series, for XMP support.

[NovelHawk]

On 7/22/2021 at 8:09 PM, Chris Pratt said:

3600MHz isn't going to fry your system

It isn't? Are you sure? My CPU died around a month after installing two 3600 sticks and manually enabling XMPP at 3600 instead of the automatic bios selection of 2400 (which is also the listed maximum on intel page)

 

It died when I let the PC run all night so I don't know what had happened but since I saw that I was using unsupported (for what I understand) ram frequencies I assumed I killed the CPU memory controller (which I understand is the component responsible for handling the communication between cpu and ram)

[Chris Pratt]

3 hours ago, NovelHawk said:

It isn't? Are you sure? My CPU died around a month after installing two 3600 sticks and manually enabling XMPP at 3600 instead of the automatic bios selection of 2400 (which is also the listed maximum on intel page)

 

It died when I let the PC run all night so I don't know what had happened but since I saw that I was using unsupported (for what I understand) ram frequencies I assumed I killed the CPU memory controller (which I understand is the component responsible for handling the communication between cpu and ram)

It's impossible to say what happened then, but there's checks and safeties all over the place. Modern CPUs can protect themselves from nearly anything, as long as you don't do something stupid and extreme. If you pump some ridiculous amount of voltage into the SOC or something on a cheap POS board, maybe. If you have at least reasonable quality components, you'd practically have to try to kill it.

 

The moral there is don't touch anything unless you know what you're doing, but just enabling XMP and calling it day, is not going to fry your CPU. Worse case scenario, it just won't boot.