Question Question regarding DDR5 on Intel Z890 mobo (G.Skill Ripsaws M5 DDR5-6000 96GB Kit) (DOCP)

[hwajai21]

Hey y'all, I recently got a new setup going with an Intel 265K + Asus Z890 motherboard and have a question about RAM (it had been a pretty long time since my last upgrade and I'm still catching up with Amd Expo vs. Intel XMP vs. DOCP etc.)

I picked up a kit of G.Skill 2x48GB (96GB) DDR-6000 CL30-36-36-96 1.35.v. heckuva deal open-box on Amazon and came in brand new. This ram is officially spec'd as AMD EXPO, and, to my understanding, Intel boards would be looking for XMP.

After installing the ram there was no XMP profile (no surprise), however, the motherboard appears to have picked up the correct OC speed/timings (6000 / 30-36-36-96 1.35v) by using its built-in DOCP profile (DOCP is new to me).

sorry, kind of a long ways to the question and I'm probably worrying too much, but, running this ram this way - DOCP - should be fine, right? The system has been stable for a couple weeks with everything I've thrown at it. What I'm not sure of is, if there is some deep setting with voltages/clocks/etc that DOCP could be missing that would have been there had I used "official" XMP ram.

Hope this makes sense. appreciate any input!

 

[Lutfij]

D.O.C.P is Asus's way of translating Intel's X.M.P onto an AMD platform.

sorry, kind of a long ways to the question and I'm probably worrying too much, but, running this ram this way - DOCP - should be fine, right?
If the system begins developing instability, it could be attributed to the memory. Run memtest on your platform and if no errors surface, you're good in the long run.

Just to clarify the Neo's found within G.Skill's portfolio are meant for AMD platforms.

Moved thread from Components section to Memory section.

 

[Eximo]

That is perfectly fine.

Direct Overclocking Profile, Intel eXtreme Memory Profile, AMD eXtended Profiles for Overclocking.

They are all the same thing rebranded basically. Just a way to store the memory parameters.

It matters more these days as memory speeds increase, they are basically selecting which chips work better with Intel or AMD, or configuring profiles for both.

 

[hwajai21]

That is perfectly fine.

Direct Overclocking Profile, Intel eXtreme Memory Profile, AMD eXtended Profiles for Overclocking.

They are all the same thing rebranded basically. Just a way to store the memory parameters.

It matters more these days as memory speeds increase, they are basically selecting which chips work better with Intel or AMD, or configuring profiles for both.

appreciate the info! Things seem good and stable - after posting yesterday I let a few 3DMark 20xloop stress tests run too and all passed fine on DOCP ... even with a moderate overclock on the gpu.

so thanks again you helped in my decision to send my backup memory kit back.

now I'm kind of wondering why my 265K seems to run 5.2Ghz max instead of 5.5 max advertised spec - but I'll take that to the overclock forum ... these things don't seem as simple as taking my Celeron 500A to 800 back in the day 😆

 

[JeffreyP55]

Hey y'all, I recently got a new setup going with an Intel 265K + Asus Z890 motherboard and have a question about RAM (it had been a pretty long time since my last upgrade and I'm still catching up with Amd Expo vs. Intel XMP vs. DOCP etc.)

I picked up a kit of G.Skill 2x48GB (96GB) DDR-6000 CL30-36-36-96 1.35.v. heckuva deal open-box on Amazon and came in brand new. This ram is officially spec'd as AMD EXPO, and, to my understanding, Intel boards would be looking for XMP.

After installing the ram there was no XMP profile (no surprise), however, the motherboard appears to have picked up the correct OC speed/timings (6000 / 30-36-36-96 1.35v) by using its built-in DOCP profile (DOCP is new to me).

sorry, kind of a long ways to the question and I'm probably worrying too much, but, running this ram this way - DOCP - should be fine, right? The system has been stable for a couple weeks with everything I've thrown at it. What I'm not sure of is, if there is some deep setting with voltages/clocks/etc that DOCP could be missing that would have been there had I used "official" XMP ram.

Hope this makes sense. appreciate any input!

DOCP is for AMD CPU's. XMP, Intel.