Asus MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME + Corsair VENGANCE 3200MHz

JocoCraft

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So...
I have been scrolling Asus's webpage, and came across MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME. It says "Dual DDR4 3866 (OC) support." What does that mean? Would I be able to put in Corsair Vengance Led, with 3200MHz?
Thanks!!!
@Crashman
 
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Yes, you could use the corsair kit.
Ram faster than 2400 speed is really overclocked 2133 ram that needs more than the stock 1.2v to run at higher speeds.
The support says that the motherboard supports up to 3866 speeds.
But... do not get all excited about fast ram speeds. Higher speeds are accompanied by higher latency negating most of the value.
The difference is a small percentage in real app performance or fps.
Read this on skylake ram scaling:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1478-page1.html
Yes, you could use the corsair kit.
Ram faster than 2400 speed is really overclocked 2133 ram that needs more than the stock 1.2v to run at higher speeds.
The support says that the motherboard supports up to 3866 speeds.
But... do not get all excited about fast ram speeds. Higher speeds are accompanied by higher latency negating most of the value.
The difference is a small percentage in real app performance or fps.
Read this on skylake ram scaling:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1478-page1.html
 
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Chris_419

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I'm running 32gb of DDR4 Corsair 3200mhz Platinum ram and it runs great . I'm using a Strix GTX 950 video card with an i7 6700 skylark 4ghz cpu.