Quick question about RAM.

[jhurst117]

I was looking up the specs on my motherboard I have the gigabyte g1 sniper m5 and i noticed the memory specs were DDR3 3000(O.C.) / 2933(O.C.) / 2800(O.C.) / 2666(O.C.) / 2600(O.C.) / 2500(O.C.) / 2400(O.C.) / 2200(O.C.) / 2133(O.C.) / 2000(O.C.) / 1866(O.C.) / 1800(O.C.) / 1600 / 1333 MHz. does the O.C. mean it will only run over clocked ram at that speed and not factory ram like factory 2400mhz id have to overclock 1600 Mhz factory speeds to that speed?

[Enderman]

oc means you need to enable xmp or oc your ram to run at that speed

2400MHz is not "factory" that is an overclock speed

 

only 1600 and 1333 are stock non-OC values

anything above that is considered an overclock for DDR3

[jhurst117]

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so anything above 1600 Mhz on ddr3 is considered overclocked so theres no tweeking on my end I'd need to do to get it to work besides basic bios stuff. thanks wasnt sure if there was something different between advertised 2400Mhz and 2400Mhz (O.C.)

[Enderman]

so anything above 1600 Mhz on ddr3 is considered overclocked so theres no tweeking on my end I'd need to do to get it to work besides basic bios stuff. thanks wasnt sure if there was something different between advertised 2400Mhz and 2400Mhz (O.C.)

you just need to enable XMP in the UEFI and it auto OCs itself to the advertised speed

[SirDucksallot]

Some RAM sticks OC by themselves,like the HyoerX Fury series by Kingston.If your MOBO supports it.