Advice on upgrading RAM needed

[Craigathorn]

So i have an asus Maximus viii hero motherboard with an intel i7-6700k running at 4.8ghz in my rig, i want to upgrade my ram to hopefully help render some videos, maybe add a few fps in games on ultra high settings and so on

 

however i have been browsing and have noticed that the board is dual channel, does this mean i can not buy a quad channel kit? will it cause me and problems?

 

i really am looking to overkill RAM, not going to lie, i've been looking at getting a quad channel 64gb kit but am concerned that it won't work or work as well as some other set up that i could possibly have instead..

 

any advice would be great, if there's recommended configurations for the board that i am unaware of then please go ahead and lay it on me  

[NoobCase]

Will not matter if you get a quad or dual channel Kit. 

[ChillyPepperGuy]

3 minutes ago, Craigathorn said:

So i have an asus Maximus viii hero motherboard with an intel i7-6700k running at 4.8ghz in my rig, i want to upgrade my ram to hopefully help render some videos, maybe add a few fps in games on ultra high settings and so on

 

however i have been browsing and have noticed that the board is dual channel, does this mean i can not buy a quad channel kit? will it cause me and problems?

 

i really am looking to overkill RAM, not going to lie, i've been looking at getting a quad channel 64gb kit but am concerned that it won't work or work as well as some other set up that i could possibly have instead..

 

any advice would be great, if there's recommended configurations for the board that i am unaware of then please go ahead and lay it on me  

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/cpH48d/kingston-memory-hx421c14fbk464

i would suggest this kit. and yes you can run it in dual channel 

[Craigathorn]

@NoobCase @mcaldwell thanks guys, any idea of how i can find out what speed configuration my set up can handle?

[ChillyPepperGuy]

Just now, Craigathorn said:

@NoobCase @mcaldwell thanks guys, any idea of how i can find out what speed configuration my set up can handle?

it says up to 2133 on ARK

http://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz

[Craigathorn]

7 minutes ago, mcaldwell said:

it says up to 2133 on ARK

http://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz

nice one mate, you're a star  

[NoobCase]

1 hour ago, mcaldwell said:

it says up to 2133 on ARK

http://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz

Mmm surely it will handle faster on xmp? 

[ChillyPepperGuy]

2 minutes ago, NoobCase said:

Mmm surely it will handle faster on xmp? 

definitly

[Craigathorn]

@mcaldwell @NoobCase

 

ive looked in my bios and the 2133 corsair dual kit I have in there at the moment is xmp to 3000