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CPU and RAM speed

woox
By woox
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Under the memory specifications tab at intel's website, there is a spec called "memory type" (for example for the i5 4690k it is ddr3 1333/1600). For a long time I thought that this meant the RAM speeds the CPU will support. However, I have found so many builds online with RAM speeds that exceed that limit, that I am starting to question if I am correct. So what does "memory type" really mean?

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Under the memory specifications tab at intel's website, there is a spec called "memory type" (for example for the i5 4690k it is ddr3 1333/1600). For a long time I thought that this meant the RAM speeds the CPU will support. However, I have found so many builds online with RAM speeds that exceed that limit, that I am starting to question if I am correct. So what does "memory type" really mean?

Memory type refers to the type of memory(DDR3) and the speed the CPU officially supports. Much like how a 3570K officially supports 3.4GHz, but can be overclocked to say 4.4GHz, memory modules can be overclocked past Intel and AMD specifications.

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