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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

Even if you're not overclocking, unstable RAM can cause lots of issues.

I don't have any personal experience with ddr5 yet but at least on ddr4 a lot of XMP profiles had stability issues that were fixed just with manual tuning, but it's different if your CPU doesn't officially support it, too.