Question Does having ram clocked at 2900mhz have a major performance impact

SgtWireless

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I feel stupid to post somehting like this, but this ram kit i got a year ago will only run at 2900mhz on this mobo compared to the 3000hz i got on the smaller kit, i dont know if the 100mhz difference makes any difference to modern gaming.

The mobo its on is an asus TUF z390plus gaming with a intel I7 9700k and 3080ti.
 

Lutfij

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All DDR4 platforms for Intel had their sweet spots with tight latency DDR4-3200MHz dual channel ram kits. You could look towards DDR4-3600MHz ram kits but if they cost you a lot more than DDR4-3200MHz then you'd be at the point diminishing returns, where you're spending more in order to get just a little out of the platform.

this ram kit i got a year ago
For the sake of relevance, what ram kit are we talking about here?

asus TUF z390plus gaming
BIOS version for your motherboard?
 

SgtWireless

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new ram kit is a 32gb corsair vengence that can clock to 3600mhz but my mobo wont let me do that, old kit was also a corsair dominator 16gb kit clocked at 3000mhz only, my mobo bios is as up to date as i can get it, old parts have their limits

if i try 3000mhz with these sticks i get crashes and instability, something not present on the previous 16gb, perhaps i made a a mistake with what kit i got
 

SgtWireless

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also id like to add that the only game that seemed to suffer after installing the new kit is battlefield 2042, dropping that 100mhz seems to have broken the entire game so thats why i was asking if i was missing something else here too