Just a quick run down on dram and XMP.
Firstly....
When asking for advice/help always list your full specs. Its easiest if you go to your profile and populate the info there so you only have to enter it once. When talking about dram please list the actual part number.
XMP is an overclock. Its how the kit was binned and tested on the test platform at the factory, Its not a guarantee. The guaranteed settings is the jedec standard for your MOBO. If it says 2666, which is the Z370 strandard, that's your guaranteed speed. What runs on one board may not run on another. Some kits you pop in, click on XMP and BAM it works no worrys. Some it never works but makes for a good starting point to tweak on until it works. The OC on anything else, particularly the CPU and definitely the BCLCK will affect whether or not XMP works. Jack your BCLCK and its pretty much a guarantee you will have a headache trying to get the dram to work with it if at all.
Not all kits are alike. Bargain dram is bargain for a reason. They can write whatever they want on there for XMP values as its not the JEDEC. Think of XMP as an overclock preset.
Your MOBO and CPU also play a large part in dram stability. Dont forget the memory controller resides with the CPU.
DO NOT MIX KITS!!!I Buy what you want now. Dont buy 32GB now with the premise that you will buy 32GB more later to upgrade to 64GB. Mixing kits, even the exact same model number is a risky venture. You may get lucky and it works flawlessly but the odds are not forever in your favor on this. This forum and many others are full of dram issues that are the result of mixing kits. The higher the speed the more important this is. Sticks are first binned for like properties then tested pulled and grouped as a kit and tested again as a kit. The more sticks there are in a kit the more likely it is for things to not work as planned and the more effort it takes on the part of the manufacturer to bin the kits. Some are under the impression the sticks just roll off an assembly line and get packed up in quantities of 1, 2, 4 or 8 etc. Its not so. It takes more effort than that.
Finally and possibly most importantly.......PURCHASE RAM THAT IS ON YOUR MOBO QVL LIST!! This was you know that a particular kit was tested and confirmed to work with a particular platform.
Firstly....
When asking for advice/help always list your full specs. Its easiest if you go to your profile and populate the info there so you only have to enter it once. When talking about dram please list the actual part number.
XMP is an overclock. Its how the kit was binned and tested on the test platform at the factory, Its not a guarantee. The guaranteed settings is the jedec standard for your MOBO. If it says 2666, which is the Z370 strandard, that's your guaranteed speed. What runs on one board may not run on another. Some kits you pop in, click on XMP and BAM it works no worrys. Some it never works but makes for a good starting point to tweak on until it works. The OC on anything else, particularly the CPU and definitely the BCLCK will affect whether or not XMP works. Jack your BCLCK and its pretty much a guarantee you will have a headache trying to get the dram to work with it if at all.
Not all kits are alike. Bargain dram is bargain for a reason. They can write whatever they want on there for XMP values as its not the JEDEC. Think of XMP as an overclock preset.
Your MOBO and CPU also play a large part in dram stability. Dont forget the memory controller resides with the CPU.
DO NOT MIX KITS!!!I Buy what you want now. Dont buy 32GB now with the premise that you will buy 32GB more later to upgrade to 64GB. Mixing kits, even the exact same model number is a risky venture. You may get lucky and it works flawlessly but the odds are not forever in your favor on this. This forum and many others are full of dram issues that are the result of mixing kits. The higher the speed the more important this is. Sticks are first binned for like properties then tested pulled and grouped as a kit and tested again as a kit. The more sticks there are in a kit the more likely it is for things to not work as planned and the more effort it takes on the part of the manufacturer to bin the kits. Some are under the impression the sticks just roll off an assembly line and get packed up in quantities of 1, 2, 4 or 8 etc. Its not so. It takes more effort than that.
Finally and possibly most importantly.......PURCHASE RAM THAT IS ON YOUR MOBO QVL LIST!! This was you know that a particular kit was tested and confirmed to work with a particular platform.
