B360 QVL shows XMP for 3000mhz RAM

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Hi,

I am building a new PC and I have a ASUS ROG Strix B360 F Gaming mother board. When searching for my choice of RAM(G.Skill F4-3000C16D-16GTZR) in the QVL of the board, it says '(XMP)'. I know B360 can go up to max 2666mhz but what does this XMP means? Does that means I can get 2666mhz with enabling XMP on 3000mhz RAM?
 
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XMP = Extreme Memory Profile, Think of it as a guide (built into memory control chip) for BIOS to follow to automatically overclock memory to specified frequency and other settings.
Base frequency for DDR4 is 2133MHz so that particular memory should run at that speed unless you enable XMP option in BIOS and it should be automatically set to 3000MHz. If MB is specify to go up to 2666MHz that's what XMP should be available.
XMP = Extreme Memory Profile, Think of it as a guide (built into memory control chip) for BIOS to follow to automatically overclock memory to specified frequency and other settings.
Base frequency for DDR4 is 2133MHz so that particular memory should run at that speed unless you enable XMP option in BIOS and it should be automatically set to 3000MHz. If MB is specify to go up to 2666MHz that's what XMP should be available.
 
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Okay, so this means if I put this 3000MHz RAM on this particular MB and turn on XMP from uefi, it'll go up to 2666MHz right?