Hi forum

I want to upgrade my pc with the new i9 14900K. What RAM should I buy? 6000 cl30 or 7200 cl34?

I want it to be plug and play with XMP (no RAM manual overclocking). I am thinking about buying the Asus Maximus Z790 Hero high-end motherboard.

I use my PC mostly for gaming and video rendering.

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Thanks in advance

Mingusus

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  • _therealERNESTO_@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If you want to minimize the risk of XMP not working get the 6000 kit. Since it’s cl30 it probably has hynix chips anyway, which means that if you ever want to overclock in the future you’ll still be able to reach high frequencies.

    • mov3on@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      You don’t need a high end motherboard for it. 6000 is gonna run on anything really.

  • madscribbler@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Depends on how much memory you want to get. I’m running 4 channel x 32gb (128gb total) on an Asus strix z790-e wifi, and it’s unsupported. I can’t get it to post at the rated 6000mhz, so I underclocked it to 5066 (it does post up to 5200mhz but 5200mhz shows errors in memtest386). At 5066mhz it runs all 4 passes of memtest86 cleanly.

    It’s gskill 6000mhz z5.memoey.

    I did try corsair dominators (24gb each x 4 channel) and they wouldn’t post at their rated 7000mhz either. But even underclockibg them at 4800mhz was unstable.

    My advice is to stay with dual channel if you can, as those have more luck posting at xmp speeds.

    There was no valid supported 32gb x 4 channel config from the manufacturer so I’m lucky it works at all. I had to have 128gb of RAM though so put up with the slightly slower speeds.

    Asus lists the manufacturers and combinations certified to work with the board on the boards support page. Stick with those if you want xmp to work and not have to figure out a stable setup yourself.

  • Fromarine@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Just so you know all the overcooking 2 ram slot boards are the only time ur all but guaranteed 7200xmp will work. It’s just that so little people buy them they’re not even considered despite being the best for even stock performance and they all tend to have very high quality parts unlike the ‘we know rich people will buy this bcuz it costs the most’ kind of boards above it in price that tend to actually use worse parts lmao.

  • DarkoneReddits@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    if you get the asus apex encore you are almost 100% guranteed to get 8000xmp tweaked working, i’ve tried 5 different 14900K cpus on my apex encore motherboard and all were stable in 8000mhz xmp.

    that being said, if you get any other motherboard i heard its very likely you wont go over 7200 on the ram, the apex encore is special as it only features 2 ram slots and if you are going to buy it make sure you buy 2x single rank memory modules to reach 8000, preferably look at the QVL.