RAM and CPU help

[Insanity1999]

I am currently looking at these parts and I notice that the CPU can only take 32gb of 2133mhz of DDR4 but would it be possible to put in bigger such as 2400mhz? Thanks

 

https://www.pccasegear.com/products/32844/intel-core-i7-6700k

 

https://www.pccasegear.com/products/39165/corsair-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-hydro-gfx-liquid-cooled-11gb

 

https://www.pccasegear.com/products/32847/corsair-vengeance-lpx-cmk16gx4m2a2133c13r-16gb-2x8gb-ddr4-red

[SpaceGhostC2C]

Yes. It's just that anything above 2133 is consider a RAM overclock for that CPU. 

Not that it matters, really. Probably most kits advertising X speed have been validated using a CPU like that one. 

Check the motherboard's, manual, though. It will tell you the max OC RAM it supports. 

[Windows7ge]

If I understand where you found that information the CPU shouldn't be capable of handling above 32GB but the speed of 2133MHz is what is officially supported. You should be able to go higher/faster but results are not guaranteed.

[minibois]

The CPU officially can only take up to 2133Mhz, all speeds higher are achieved by the motherboard by overclocking the memory (or just turning on XMP).

[Guest]

If the CPU is only able to take 32GB of 2133MHz ram, than that's the official amount of ram that is capable with that particular. The motherboard however, could handle higher ram capacities and higher overclocks, but the cpu is limited of what it can officially support.  

[Windows7ge]

2 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Check the motherboard's, manual, though. It will tell you the max OC RAM it supports.

I wouldn't count that as accurate since if you're willing to fiddle with the base clock you can push it even higher.

[Insanity1999]

So if I were to use a higher clock speed RAM, everything would run smoothly but I get no advantage with over 2133mhz on the CPU?

[SpaceGhostC2C]

2 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

I wouldn't count that as accurate since if you're willing to fiddle with the base clock you can push it even higher.

And if you are willing to fiddle with everything you can achieve anything. But now read the OP and tell me what's the scenario we are discussing here...

 

Just now, Insanity1999 said:

So if I were to use a higher clock speed RAM, everything would run smoothly but I get no advantage with over 2133mhz on the CPU?

Out of the box, yes. Then you can enter the BIOS and enable the XMP profile for your RAM, which is the one advertised (hence it 2400 or whatever). Your memory will run at 2400 or whatever your bought after that (provided said XMP is within the OC range supported by the motherboard. Otherwise it may take more than that. See the post above). 

[Windows7ge]

3 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

But now read the OP and tell me what's the scenario we are discussing here...

I read OP once and replied but if they've posted a second question I'll do it again.

[Windows7ge]

10 minutes ago, Insanity1999 said:

So if I were to use a higher clock speed RAM, everything would run smoothly but I get no advantage with over 2133mhz on the CPU?

It really depends on your use case. If all you do is web browsing, emails, text documents, and the like. Then you won't see much of a performance increase with the lowest speed like 1866MHz vs the highest speed like 3200MHz+. I've been told with PC gaming that there is something to be gained from using higher speed RAM (nothing significant but something). Similarly with content creation like music & videos but you have to factor in two things. The higher the speed the more work it COULD be to get it working stable and how much are you willing to spend for just a little bit more performance.

[just_dave]

3 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

It really depends on your use case. If all you do is web browsing, emails, text documents, and the like. Then you won't see much of a performance increase with the lowest speed like 1866MHz vs the highest speed like 3200MHz+. I've been told with PC gaming that there is something to be gained from using higher speed RAM (nothing significant but something). Similarly with content creation like music & videos but you have to factor in two things. The higher the speed the more work it COULD be to get it working stable and how much are you willing to spend for just a little bit more performance.

You gain significant amount of performance with high speed on Ryzen, Infinity Farbic uses RAM as interconnect

[Windows7ge]

52 minutes ago, dave_k said:

You gain significant amount of performance with high speed on Ryzen, Infinity Farbic uses RAM as interconnect

It's hard (for me) to keep track of the different platforms and generations of CPU/MoBo that do and do not see performance benefits from RAM speed dependant on the work flow. I can't keep track anymore. All I know is newer platforms are seeing performance increases from faster RAM in certain use cases like gaming.