i7 8700k RAM ?

[infiniteCurse]

I heard that 8700k likes to have around 3200 ram speed where it operates the best. is this true? I have 3000 speed, just curious if this is right. Thanks

[ARikozuM]

3000MHz is about where you want to be unless you want to try manually overclocking it. 

[JoostinOnline]

The difference is pretty small for Intel, but it is there. 3000MHz is excellent. Technically anything higher is going to be better, but the reason people say 3200MHz is because the cost to performance ratio is horrible past that. The performance difference between 2400MHz and 2666MHz is much bigger than 3000MHz and 3200MHz, and the price difference is smaller. 

 

It's all about finding a sweet spot. There's no reason to get anything higher if you've already got 3000MHz RAM. 

[infiniteCurse]

Thanks everyone for the input! Good thing i bought the 3000 to begin with lol.

[DarkSmith2]

3 hours ago, infiniteblessing said:

I heard that 8700k likes to have around 3200 ram speed where it operates the best. is this true? I have 3000 speed, just curious if this is right. Thanks

its much more difficult than that. DDR4-3200 CL14 is a sweetspot in performance, scaling matters. But bandwidth alone isnt worth anything DDR4-3000 kits can perform same as good depending on the timings. But from a money to performance standpoint its almost never worth to buy above DDR4-3600.