Is all ram overclockable?

Frankieanime158 · February 9, 2016

Hey, so I have a couple questions about overclocking.

First off, I'm very fortunate. I went posting in our local buy and sell garage sale facebook page seeing if anyone had any motherboards/cpus and such for sale to help my little brother build a CS:GO machine.

A guy who owns a local IT business contacted me, and gave me an Asus P5E3 Deluxe motherboard for free It's still shiny and came in the box. Said he only ever used an e2200 on it, but it's just been sitting

there not being used and gave it to me free of charge.

I have a q6700 right now, with a generic pre-built motherboard with 6gb of DDR2. But this new board supports DDR3 1333, and can overclock 1600 (and I believe 1866 it said as well).

So I'm wondering if there is specific ram you need to buy in order to overclock it, or will any sticks do?

I know it's a 7 year old board, and 1333 ddr3 along with a q6700 is extremely outdated by today's standards, but I just don't have the money right now to do a full upgrade.

Either way, I'm thankful, and I'm excited to be have gotten this board, and excited to finally overclock my chip and at least be able to say I have ddr3 And if I'm able to overclock that ram to 1600, which is a

pretty reasonable speed in today's standards, that would be great.

Also, the guy who gave me the board said he also will sell me his hyper T4 next week when I get the money to do so. Do you think that cooler will be sufficiant enough to overclock?

My overclocking experience only goes as far as AMD overdrive, which isn't really anything. But I've built my current system from the ground up, so I understand the hardware. But this will be the first time I go into

the BIOS and tamper with things. So until I do, I'm going to be watching a lot of videos on how to safely do this.

But yea, how is the T4? And can I overclock any ddr3 stick, or do I need something specific?

Thanks in advance

IsaacDaGrazin · February 9, 2016

if the mobo supports ddr3 you NEED ddr3

if it supports ddr2 you NEED ddr2

if it supports ddr4 you NEED ddr4

if it supports ddr you NEED ddr

only one of them will fit

and not all ram is overclockable i had some skyhnix sticks (or something xD) 2x4 ddr3 and i couldnt overclock it

some ram comes factory overclocked like hyperx fury (i have that now and its factory overclocked)

Frankieanime158 · February 9, 2016

1 minute ago, IsaacDaGrazin said:

if the mobo supports ddr3 you NEED ddr3

if it supports ddr2 you NEED ddr2

if it supports ddr4 you NEED ddr4

if it supports ddr you NEED ddr

only one of them will fit

and not all ram is overclockable i had some skyhnix sticks (or something xD) 2x4 ddr3 and i couldnt overclock it

some ram comes factory overclocked like hyperx fury (i have that now and its factory overclocked)

Yea I know, I definitely wasn't about to try and put my DDR2 sticks in there :b

But oh okay. So if it overclocks, it will? If I attempt to overclock ram that doesn't allow it, it won't screw anything up? Like an error message or something?

IsaacDaGrazin · February 9, 2016

1 minute ago, Frankieanime158 said:

Yea I know, I definitely wasn't about to try and put my DDR2 sticks in there :b

But oh okay. So if it overclocks, it will? If I attempt to overclock ram that doesn't allow it, it won't screw anything up? Like an error message or something?

if the ram dosent allow it you shouldn’t be able to oc it anyway

if it does allow it you will be allowed too

edit: if you are allowed to overclock it (somehow idk if its possible) but the ram dosent actually support it you may be fine but stick with low oc to be safe since the manufacturer didn’t make it to be oc'ed

Edited February 9, 2016 by IsaacDaGrazin
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Jumper118 · February 9, 2016

32 minutes ago, Frankieanime158 said:

Hey, so I have a couple questions about overclocking.

First off, I'm very fortunate. I went posting in our local buy and sell garage sale facebook page seeing if anyone had any motherboards/cpus and such for sale to help my little brother build a CS:GO machine.

A guy who owns a local IT business contacted me, and gave me an Asus P5E3 Deluxe motherboard for free It's still shiny and came in the box. Said he only ever used an e2200 on it, but it's just been sitting

there not being used and gave it to me free of charge.

I have a q6700 right now, with a generic pre-built motherboard with 6gb of DDR2. But this new board supports DDR3 1333, and can overclock 1600 (and I believe 1866 it said as well).

So I'm wondering if there is specific ram you need to buy in order to overclock it, or will any sticks do?

I know it's a 7 year old board, and 1333 ddr3 along with a q6700 is extremely outdated by today's standards, but I just don't have the money right now to do a full upgrade.

Either way, I'm thankful, and I'm excited to be have gotten this board, and excited to finally overclock my chip and at least be able to say I have ddr3 And if I'm able to overclock that ram to 1600, which is a

pretty reasonable speed in today's standards, that would be great.

Also, the guy who gave me the board said he also will sell me his hyper T4 next week when I get the money to do so. Do you think that cooler will be sufficiant enough to overclock?

My overclocking experience only goes as far as AMD overdrive, which isn't really anything. But I've built my current system from the ground up, so I understand the hardware. But this will be the first time I go into

the BIOS and tamper with things. So until I do, I'm going to be watching a lot of videos on how to safely do this.

But yea, how is the T4? And can I overclock any ddr3 stick, or do I need something specific?

Thanks in advance

you will probably be best going for 2gb sticks of ddr 3 for good compatibility.

Frankieanime158 · February 9, 2016

Yea, since it tops out at 8 max, I was thinking 4x2 kit. But actually I was wondering if ddr3 1600 would work. Or does it need to be overclocked from 1333?