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Do I need to worry about RAM stability if I’m not overclocking? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone! Noob question here. I’m planning to purchase an i7-14700k and a mobo that says it accommodates RAM speeds at 7000mhz. With that said, I’ve read comments saying that they couldn’t get good stability in 14th gen over 6600Mhz. I’m not overclocking and don’t plan to. My question is, are these people only getting bad stability because they are overclocking, or do I need to make sure my RAM is 6600 or 6400 or lower? In other words, do stock speeds ever risk reducing stability? I’m new to any of that.

Side question, if my board says 7000Mhz, can I run less than that for RAM without issue or must it match?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Does that board happen to be the msi pro z790-P? If so you're fine the people who are getting ram instability at those frequencies im 1000% sure are from their boards. More proof of this was my 13600k on a z690 board. At first it could only do 6200, than I updated the bios and suddenly 6400 was stable, a few months later my board came out with another new update, now 6600 worked and now it's stable at 6666mhz. If it was the cpus memory controller as the problem, new bios updates wouldn't help at all but they did because its the board you cheaped out on thats tbe issue. That's why you go MSI when doing so because they have so much better minimum memory and vrm quality unlike the atrocious bottom tier z690/z790 boards that gigabyte and especially asus offer. They also will essentially flat out lie in that supported ram speed spec u referenced