Question Confused by RAM speed

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I have an HP OMEN 40L PC, with XMP 2.0 compatible HyperX DDR4 RAM that is advertised as 3733mt/s (which is also the speed on physical sticker on the RAM).

What I'm confused by is whether this is the base speed or just an overclocked speed? Using OMEN Gaming Hub, I'm giving the option of "Default" 3200mt/s or "Turbo" 3733mt/s. Does this not mean that actually this RAM is the equivalent of any RAM that is sold as being 3200mt/s and that 3733mt/s is just an overclocked speed I'm running?

What confuses me further, is that I'm wanting to replace and upgrade this RAM but am now unsure about which advertised speed I should be looking for as I can't seem to find out the maximum speed the motherboard supports. If I'm currently running RAM at overclocked 3733mt/s, am I fine to buy any RAM that is advertised at this speed, or should it be 3200?!

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What I'm confused by is whether this is the base speed or just an overclocked speed?
3730mhz is overclocked speed.
Base speed depends on cpu installed. It can be 2133mhz, 2933mhz, 3000mhz, 3200mhz. We don't know model name of your cpu.
Does this not mean that actually this RAM is the equivalent of any RAM that is sold as being 3200mt/s and that 3733mt/s is just an overclocked speed I'm running?
Your ram is 3730mhz ram. It has 3730mhz XMP profile. It has been tested and binned to work in this speed.
What confuses me further, is that I'm wanting to replace and upgrade this RAM but am now unsure about which advertised speed I should be looking for as I can't seem to find out the maximum speed the motherboard supports.
If I'm currently running RAM at overclocked 3733mt/s, am I fine to buy any RAM that is advertised at this speed, or should it be 3200?!
Get whatever speed ram, you want. You can get 3730mhz or 3200mhz ram. Both will work.
 
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Cpu-z plainly states the ram is currently running at 3724.2MHz, which is within the margin of error for 3733MHz ram since its not a hard physical number but the result of a multiplier x buss.

3200MHz is the fastest default speed of 13thgen ddr4 memory controllers, so will support ram upto that speed without XMP profile. That's why it's considered the base speed. The 'turbo' speed isn't really 'turbo' it's nothing more than enabling the XMP profile on the ram, which for your ram is 3733MHz.

Motherboard shouldn't have any issues handling whatever speeds you want to use, even upto 4400MHz. HP limits the ram to 3733MHz because that's the package deal for the 40L, they probably got a great discount in bulk rates from someone, has very little to do with the motherboard, it's generally a cpu limitation, whether the memory controller can handle the speeds at default settings without requiring tweaks to bios settings.
 

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Cpu-z plainly states the ram is currently running at 3724.2MHz, which is within the margin of error for 3733MHz ram since its not a hard physical number but the result of a multiplier x buss.

3200MHz is the fastest default speed of 13thgen ddr4 memory controllers, so will support ram upto that speed without XMP profile. That's why it's considered the base speed. The 'turbo' speed isn't really 'turbo' it's nothing more than enabling the XMP profile on the ram, which for your ram is 3733MHz.

Motherboard shouldn't have any issues handling whatever speeds you want to use, even upto 4400MHz. HP limits the ram to 3733MHz because that's the package deal for the 40L, they probably got a great discount in bulk rates from someone, has very little to do with the motherboard, it's generally a cpu limitation, whether the memory controller can handle the speeds at default settings without requiring tweaks to bios settings.

Thank you. So to confirm, this will 100% be absolutely fine and compatible?:


That's what I'm considering getting 32GB of.