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Other than a different formula I kind of agree. High clock rates are not always the best choice. Ive often clocked much lower than the rated speed to get better latency timings.
CL/MHz x 1000 = time to commit charge milliseconds. My clocks for example. Im running EIGHT sticks of 8GB Corsair Dominator 3800Mhz C 19 that doesnt seem to slow down my 7900X 5GHz OC. Its running the full 3800 but I chose to lower the CL instead of raising the speed so CL16. Comparison of the two settings.
19/3800 x 1000= 5mS
16/3800 x 1000= 4.2mS
Bottom line,
In my experience go set a fixed budget for your memory and get the best you can. Never go for the highest possible speed available as its always hyped and rarely delivers.
How many sticks to use is and has been a topicc of debate for many years. Ive never had the nunmber of sticks hold back an OC but I have had 2 sticks that just would not perform outside of a very narrow window. Ive always had good luck with top of the line Corsair and Gskill. Always settle on what you are getting as for speed and size and buy a kit now. Dont buy half now and half later as the single biggest mistake with Dram is mixing sticks even if its an identical part number.
Other than a different formula I kind of agree. High clock rates are not always the best choice. Ive often clocked much lower than the rated speed to get better latency timings.
CL/MHz x 1000 = time to commit charge milliseconds. My clocks for example. Im running EIGHT sticks of 8GB Corsair Dominator 3800Mhz C 19 that doesnt seem to slow down my 7900X 5GHz OC. Its running the full 3800 but I chose to lower the CL instead of raising the speed so CL16. Comparison of the two settings.
19/3800 x 1000= 5mS
16/3800 x 1000= 4.2mS
Bottom line,
In my experience go set a fixed budget for your memory and get the best you can. Never go for the highest possible speed available as its always hyped and rarely delivers.
How many sticks to use is and has been a topicc of debate for many years. Ive never had the nunmber of sticks hold back an OC but I have had 2 sticks that just would not perform outside of a very narrow window. Ive always had good luck with top of the line Corsair and Gskill. Always settle on what you are getting as for speed and size and buy a kit now. Dont buy half now and half later as the single biggest mistake with Dram is mixing sticks even if its an identical part number.
Hello guys and girls,
I am happy to report that so far everything has gone smoothly. I built the system externally on the bench first outside the case and installed windows 10. Initially the UEFI BIOS did not pick up my DDR4 RAM timings and speed but after loading XMP profile, it sits nicely at 3200MHz 15-15-15-35.
One thing I was unsure of is how much to tighten the Kraken x62 water pump onto the 8700k. I put it on firmly but did not get too crazy with it. So far my temps outside the case do not break 50c. (I am assuming that once it goes in the case that I should probably see higher temps)
Next I ran a few benchmarks like Firestrike, and Cinebench R15 (I don't have the screenshots to share the results at the moment as I am away from home but will as soon as I return). I was very happy with the results but I would barely see my CPU speeds on the 8700k hit anywhere near the 4.7GHz turbo mark. Most I would see is about 4.1GHz and no more. I decided to take the plunge and update the BIOS on my Maximus X Formula. I noticed that the BIOS version on the mobo was the oldest version ever released for this model and that there were several releases past that one all with "Improved performance and stability" in their release notes.
I went into UEFI and simply went to "Update BIOS via Internet" I just said what the hell, lets see what happens. It all went smoothly. I re-ran my benchmarks again after the BIOS update and noticed a significant improvement from the previous run with the oldest BIOS loaded. I also noticed my CPU speed hit 4.7 GHz for multiple durations of time. I am very happy with this 🙂
Now as far as my AIO Kraken x62 is concerned, I did hear some very slight and benign gurgling of the cooling fluid but it seems to have settled and completely disappeared after about a day or so. The temps on my 8700k at stock speeds hit about 35-40c while playing DCS but this is also keeping in my that the mobo is still sitting in open air outside the case so I assume temps will be higher one I get it all buttoned up. I can not even hear the water pump which is a bit concerning but after I looked at the CPU temp/Pump RPM curve, I was not hitting CPU temps anywhere near what would cause the pump to go into full blast.
I do plan on overclocking the 8700k to hit 5 GHz in a few months but for now I think Im just going to exercise it at stock.
I will share my Samsung Magic M.S SSD scores as well Firestrike and Cinebench and would love to get your thoughts on how my system stacks up at stock speeds. In the mean time I ill leave you with some photos 🙂
As always, I appreciate all of the time and energy from you guys in helping me put this machine together 🙂
I am happy to report that so far everything has gone smoothly. I built the system externally on the bench first outside the case and installed windows 10. Initially the UEFI BIOS did not pick up my DDR4 RAM timings and speed but after loading XMP profile, it sits nicely at 3200MHz 15-15-15-35.
One thing I was unsure of is how much to tighten the Kraken x62 water pump onto the 8700k. I put it on firmly but did not get too crazy with it. So far my temps outside the case do not break 50c. (I am assuming that once it goes in the case that I should probably see higher temps)
Next I ran a few benchmarks like Firestrike, and Cinebench R15 (I don't have the screenshots to share the results at the moment as I am away from home but will as soon as I return). I was very happy with the results but I would barely see my CPU speeds on the 8700k hit anywhere near the 4.7GHz turbo mark. Most I would see is about 4.1GHz and no more. I decided to take the plunge and update the BIOS on my Maximus X Formula. I noticed that the BIOS version on the mobo was the oldest version ever released for this model and that there were several releases past that one all with "Improved performance and stability" in their release notes.
I went into UEFI and simply went to "Update BIOS via Internet" I just said what the hell, lets see what happens. It all went smoothly. I re-ran my benchmarks again after the BIOS update and noticed a significant improvement from the previous run with the oldest BIOS loaded. I also noticed my CPU speed hit 4.7 GHz for multiple durations of time. I am very happy with this 🙂
Now as far as my AIO Kraken x62 is concerned, I did hear some very slight and benign gurgling of the cooling fluid but it seems to have settled and completely disappeared after about a day or so. The temps on my 8700k at stock speeds hit about 35-40c while playing DCS but this is also keeping in my that the mobo is still sitting in open air outside the case so I assume temps will be higher one I get it all buttoned up. I can not even hear the water pump which is a bit concerning but after I looked at the CPU temp/Pump RPM curve, I was not hitting CPU temps anywhere near what would cause the pump to go into full blast.
I do plan on overclocking the 8700k to hit 5 GHz in a few months but for now I think Im just going to exercise it at stock.
I will share my Samsung Magic M.S SSD scores as well Firestrike and Cinebench and would love to get your thoughts on how my system stacks up at stock speeds. In the mean time I ill leave you with some photos 🙂
As always, I appreciate all of the time and energy from you guys in helping me put this machine together 🙂
