Z370 RAM

[Draydince]

I recently had a Ryzen build, but there was an issue with the it running at its correct speeds. Everything left to auto, the processor would get stuck at its base clock without boosting up regardless if it was a single core task or not. When overclocked, it would automatically boost itself up an extra 100mhz past what it was set to, despite core performance boost being disabled and would cause crashing. I was able to RMA the motherboard and processor, but I'm stuck with the RAM.

I know there's scarce official information available, but does anyone know if Z370 and Coffee Lake will support 3200 RAM? I can't imagine it wouldn't, but I would just like any insight regarding this to decide if I should just hold onto this ram, or take the 15% restocking fee and ship it back.

[STRMfrmXMN]

1 minute ago, Draydince said:

I recently had a Ryzen build, but there was an issue with the it running at its correct speeds. Everything left to auto, the processor would get stuck at its base clock without boosting up regardless if it was a single core task or not. When overclocked, it would automatically boost itself up an extra 100mhz past what it was set to, despite core performance boost being disabled and would cause crashing. I was able to RMA the motherboard and processor, but I'm stuck with the RAM.

I know there's scarce official information available, but does anyone know if Z370 and Coffee Lake will support 3200 RAM? I can't imagine it wouldn't, but I would just like any insight regarding this to decide if I should just hold onto this ram, or take the 15% restocking fee and ship it back.

Haswell E, the first Intel platform to support DDR4, supported RAM speeds that high and above. You'll be fine on Z370.

[Draydince]

Glad to hear it, thanks!

[TahoeDust]

3 minutes ago, Draydince said:

I recently had a Ryzen build, but there was an issue with the it running at its correct speeds. Everything left to auto, the processor would get stuck at its base clock without boosting up regardless if it was a single core task or not. When overclocked, it would automatically boost itself up an extra 100mhz past what it was set to, despite core performance boost being disabled and would cause crashing. I was able to RMA the motherboard and processor, but I'm stuck with the RAM.

I know there's scarce official information available, but does anyone know if Z370 and Coffee Lake will support 3200 RAM? I can't imagine it wouldn't, but I would just like any insight regarding this to decide if I should just hold onto this ram, or take the 15% restocking fee and ship it back.

Honestly, if x299 is any indication, it will probably support anything made.

[Draydince]

I know this has nothing to do with my original question, but since I've got people repying - does anyone know if Z370 will also support the next chip after it? I've seen a lot of rumors it will only support coffee lake, and after that it will be required to go to a z390 board for the next batch of chips. Is there any truth to that? That's the one thing I'm afraid about with upgrading to Coffee lake. I don't expect the board to last me the rest of my life, but to be a one series release board would make me feel pretty shafted.

[just_dave]

1 minute ago, Draydince said:

I know this has nothing to do with my original question, but since I've got people repying - does anyone know if Z370 will also support the next chip after it? I've seen a lot of rumors it will only support coffee lake, and after that it will be required to go to a z390 board for the next batch of chips. Is there any truth to that? That's the one thing I'm afraid about with upgrading to Coffee lake. I don't expect the board to last me the rest of my life, but to be a one series release board would make me feel pretty shafted.

Well, it wont last until end of life.

It is intel.

Socke change most likely in 2019.

The Ice Lake or Cannon Lake or Lake Superior i dunno how is it called will have 8 cores, so there will be Z390 for that.

[TahoeDust]

3 minutes ago, Draydince said:

I know this has nothing to do with my original question, but since I've got people repying - does anyone know if Z370 will also support the next chip after it? I've seen a lot of rumors it will only support coffee lake, and after that it will be required to go to a z390 board for the next batch of chips. Is there any truth to that? That's the one thing I'm afraid about with upgrading to Coffee lake. I don't expect the board to last me the rest of my life, but to be a one series release board would make me feel pretty shafted.

No one can say with any certainty.  However, this new obsession with boards lasting x number of generations is nonsense to me.  How often to people upgrade CPU's to the very next generation?  Very few people have a yearly CPU upgrade cycle.

 

I have never bought a new generation CPU without also purchasing a MOBO for it.

[Draydince]

The only thing I'm concerned with is with z390 coming out in late 2018, I would hate for z370 to have no upgrade path that quickly. Like I said, I'm not expecting it to last me forever - all I'm hoping for is something like a Z170 situation. Someone who got a z170 with a 6700k were able to flash their bios to use a 7700k later down the road, even if it wasn't a z270 board. All i'm hoping for is one more set of chips after the initial. 

[Froody129]

34 minutes ago, TahoeDust said:

No one can say with any certainty.  However, this new obsession with boards lasting x number of generations is nonsense to me.  How often to people upgrade CPU's to the very next generation?  Very few people have a yearly CPU upgrade cycle.

 

I have never bought a new generation CPU without also purchasing a MOBO for it.

The issue people have with it is that Intel has the option to allow all these chips to work together, they just don't so that people have to buy a new board. Personally, I know that Intel is a business and so are profit driven, so this is what we can expect. 

[TahoeDust]

Just now, Froody129 said:

The issue people have with it is that Intel has the option to allow all these chips to work together, they just don't so that people have to buy a new board.

I keep hearing this, but what makes them believe this?  How do they know there is a not an engineering reason requiring a new chipset?  There was one screenshot a while ago that showed a Gen-8 chip and z270 running together.  Who is to say that it was not just a z370 engineering sample that was being identified by software as a z270.