2400 MHZ ram on i7 4770/4771

[arkham00]

Hi, first of all I'm not sure if it is the right section, since the question is not merely about OC, it's more "can I avoid to overclock?"

Anyway, I'm building my new rig. I'll be using it for music/audio production, video and photo editing.

I'm looking for an i7 4771, a gigabyte mobo and g.skills trident x kit.
My initial setup was a GA-H87-D3H mobo and for the ram :
[TridentX] F3-1600C7D-16GTX
DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800)
16GB (8GBx2)
CL7-8-8-24
1.5 Volt

Then I thought that i could benefit from this kit:

[TridentX] F3-2400C10D-16GTX
DDR3-2400 (PC3-19200)
16GB (8GBx2)
CL10-12-12-31
1.65 Volt

I'm not really interested in OC, but as far as I could understand, high speed ram will be better for my needs, and if i'm correct to install higher frequency ram I need to do some OC.

My questions are:
For this kit what do I need ? Do I need to do some manual OC ? Will the xmp do the trick ?

Do I need a z87 chipset instead, so a mobo like the GA-Z87-HD3 ?

Do I need to OC the processor as well? How much? I have no idea, is there something like a chart that eventually explains how much should I OC the proc for running 2400 MHZ ram ?

Will I need the 4770k ? I'd prefer to avoid the K since it has some missing feature.

And last but not the least, as you can see I don't know anything about OC, but I can learn, BUT, is the hassle worth it?

PS: the budget is not a variable, since I found the two mobos and kits more or less at the same price, and for the processor the difference is about 20 euros, but I'd really like to avoid the k version if possible.

Thank you very much, I hope this isn't too much for my first post 😛

 

[Supahos]

I would get a Z87 chipset if I was planning on doing much with the computer. I know its capable of 2133 without an OC, I'm not sure about 2400 If it is it will be just enabling XMP and seeing if it will boot, You actually can't OC the 4771 (well you can go 2 or 300 mhz above the turbo with a Z87 board). I would buy the 4771, Z87 board, and the 2400 mhz memory, this will guarantee 2133, and give a decent shot at 2400 (if it only works at 2133 you can lower timings below 2400 timings)

 

[arkham00]

Thanks! It seems that the specific mobo I'm looking for won't go beyond 1600 without OC
http://www.gigabyte.fr/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4489#sp

 

[Supahos]

Thats b/c in intel's idea anything over 1600 is an OC of the memory. You wont' have to OC your computer to reach higher than 1600 however. I have a cheap set of ripjaws and an I5-3350p and have them comfortably running at 1866 mhz. You can almost certainly get 2133 out of it, the 2400 will be the actual question, but the price difference is small between 2133 and 2400, I would buy the 2400 and downclock if you can't get 2400 to work.

 

[arkham00]

Ok interesting. And what about the voltage ? This kit is 1.65v, the mobo manual states that only supports 1.5v, what do I have to do ? Can I incur in some stability problems ?
Thanks again!

 

[Supahos]

Na there will be no issue, once you enable xmp it will simply put the voltage to 1.65v and SHould be good to go.


If its stable at 1.65v you can start walking it down maybe .2V at a time to see how low it can go. Someone on the gskill site got 64 gigs of it to run at 1.53v, thats not typical, but does show that you can usually run them a bit lower.