Question CPU Speed vs Ram Speed

[Fritchard]

It is about time to upgrade my PC. I5-6600k / GTX 1070 just isn't cutting it on intensive games like warzone, etc.

So I found a bundle with a 12900k/mobo with 32gb of ddr5 6000 Ram. I wouldn't even know how to begin reasearching this, so figure I would ask. But is there an issue that I will run into with this budle. I have read something about matching the speeds of the cpu with the Ram and just wasn't understanding. Will it be plug and play or will I have to mess with the OC to make it run smoothly.

Side-bar, I will be keeping my 1070 for the short term and invest in a better card in a couple months or so.

Would appreciate all the info and guidance. I built this PC when the 1070 was new and can't believe how old it is already. And so many good deals on cpus right now.

Also understand these bundles could be cheap because they come with bad parts. It is an asus prime mobo, and gskill ripjaws 32gb ddr5 6000 CL36 Ram. It appears to be the best value for money bundle, unless I am asking for more trouble with these parts.

 

[bill001g]

You should have no issues. By default the memory will run 4800 you need to turn on a feature in the bios called xmp to use the full speed.
I would check the setting asus on some motherboards likes to have some of the overclocking options by default. Mostly this is the cpu stuff but they might have xmp on.
It is very hard to see any difference in the speed unless you constantly run things like frame counters.

 

[Fritchard]

You should have no issues. By default the memory will run 4800 you need to turn on a feature in the bios called xmp to use the full speed.
I would check the setting asus on some motherboards likes to have some of the overclocking options by default. Mostly this is the cpu stuff but they might have xmp on.
It is very hard to see any difference in the speed unless you constantly run things like frame counters.

Ok, that makes sense. So then should I enable XMP and match ram to cpu speed? What would be a good speed to set it at?

 

[kerberos_20]

Ok, that makes sense. So then should I enable XMP and match ram to cpu speed? What would be a good speed to set it at?

you dont need to match cpu speed with ram speed
that is something from the past where you had to match ram speed with FSB
nowadays its automatic, just enable XMP and done