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Banonzii

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Hi there,

I tried searching the forums and couldn't find a similar topic, but if I managed to miss one, I do apologize for the duplicate.

Now for the questions...

I'm looking to build a new rig with the i7-4770K, or possibly the new Devil's Canyon if it releases soon enough. As far as mobos go, I'm considering the Asus Maximus VI Hero, or one of the Z97 boards from Asus or MSI, but the specifics aren't really important.

My questions regard RAM speeds and Mobo/CPU standards and OC.

As the Asus Hero board says, 2133(O.C.)/2000(O.C.)/1866(O.C.)/1800(O.C.)/1600/1333, to name a few, what does that mean in terms of what speed of RAM to look for? Or, what is component is OC'd?

I planned on getting 16gbs of either G.Skill Ripjaws X (or sniper series) or Corsair Vengeance, both at 1600. I've heard that Haswell's, the 4770K in particular, scale well with a little higher speeds, so I've considered 1866 or 2133, but what does that mean in regards to the mobo and cpu? If I were to get 1866 or 2133+, what would I have to do (what would need to be changed/OC'd) to utilize those higher (than standard 1600) speeds?

As of now I don't plan on overclocking the CPU right away, but may sometime down the road. With that said, what would be the best way of approaching RAM? Stay at the max memory standard 1600, or go higher?


Thanks,

Banonzii

 
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spooky2th
With newer memory, usually all you need to do is enable XMP profile1 and the BIOS will see what the memory specs are and set them up for the advertised speed. To OC usually only need to set up memory multiplier to higher speed and set timings up (sometimes not.)
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With newer memory, usually all you need to do is enable XMP profile1 and the BIOS will see what the memory specs are and set them up for the advertised speed. To OC usually only need to set up memory multiplier to higher speed and set timings up (sometimes not.)
 
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With the Hero and the 4770K, can handle most any DRAM you want, for most people 1866 or 2133 is more than enough, for faster would want to be heavily into memory centric apps and work, like heavy video, imaging, CAD, VMs, anything using large data sets...The current Hero, (I'm running 32GB of 2666) and have run up through 3000 sticks, for it my favorite is the GSkill Tridents, with the Snipers as #2
 
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Banonzii

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So in the BIOS I just set it manual and select XMP Profile 1 and it automatically does it? I thought it would be more complicated than that, then again I wouldn't be doing any extensive OCing or anything. I read even minor OCing can increase heat output quite a bit and cause BSoD. If I just do 1866, is there anything to watch for or be worried about?

I do some photo editing and digital drawing in photoshop. I'm running 8gb 1333 right now and do alright, but occasionally max out and get processing lag, 16gb of 1866 should be more than enough to smooth that out right?

Nonetheless, thanks to the both of you for the response, I appreciate it.
 
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Yes with 1866 and the Hero, simply enable XMP and select profile 1 for the DRAM, when you first put it all together all will go to the mobos defaults...so the DRAM is easy, if you want to OC the CPU, the Hero also makes it easy, it can auto configure for you at 4.2, 4.4, 4.6 (if the CPU can OC that high, then if you take that route, can generally smooth things out by manually adjusting voltages and other things
 
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