What does 1800 (O.C) means in the "memory support" tab of a motherboard specifications?

[pitelk]

I was going for an H97 mobo (i have i5 4690 cpu) but last moment I found out that does not support 1866Hz DDR3 mem but caps to 1600.
This one Gigabyte Z97 seems that supports it but i am not sure because at the specs says that it supports 1800 (O.C).
What exactly does this mean ?

Also does it worth to give 15e more to buy the Gigabyte Z97 and some more euros to buy a 1866hz mem just for having faster mem? (i am not going to overclock the cpu as in not a -K series), or stick to 1600Hz mem and H97?

Thank you

PS. I am going to play games

 

[LucoTF]

1600 is fine, you won't feel any real world difference between 1600 and 1866+

 

[Mugglensu1984]

1600 is fine, you won't feel any real world difference between 1600 and 1866+

Hi. I know this is someone else's post but could I ask you a question?

Is there any "real world difference" between a G.Skill TridentX DDR3-2400 and a Ripjaws DDR3-1600 ?

 

[LucoTF]

1600 is fine, you won't feel any real world difference between 1600 and 1866+

Hi. I know this is someone else's post but could I ask you a question?

Is there any "real world difference" between a G.Skill TridentX DDR3-2400 and a Ripjaws DDR3-1600 ?

No:

http://techbuyersguru.com/ramspeedgaming2.php

 

[Karadjgne]

1333/1600 Mar ram is certified tested and equitable for use on Intel cpu's by Intel. 1333/1600/1866 for AMD. This is the default speeds of ram. The (OC) just means that the board is capable of recognising and using the higher speed ram, but instead of using the default settings it can use XMP profiles, or manual user settings to raise performance (overclocking 1600 to 1866 etc).

You as a user wouldn't see any advantage in faster ram for majority of games, the differences are negligible between 1600 and 1800 when using a cpu and dedicated gpu as the gpu has its own memory, but you would see a difference with an APU or igpu as that uses system memory instead.

As far as the Gigabyte z97 vrs the other h97 goes, the z97 has options. You can, maybe, upgrade in the future to a stronger K series cpu, the z boards usually have differing capabilities like Sata express, m.2, upgraded audio codecs, more USB ports, fan headers, better software etc that may or may not be included on the h97. Then again, it's Gigabyte too, so even if it was the h97, and the z97 was Biostar, I'd spend the extra for the Gigabyte. Somethings are just worth the piece of mind.

Personally I'd go with the Gigabyte z97 and the 1600MHz ram.

 

[Mugglensu1984]

1600 is fine, you won't feel any real world difference between 1600 and 1866+

Hi. I know this is someone else's post but could I ask you a question?

Is there any "real world difference" between a G.Skill TridentX DDR3-2400 and a Ripjaws DDR3-1600 ?

No:

http://techbuyersguru.com/ramspeedgaming2.php

Thanks. You cleared up a lot of confusion.

 

[Mugglensu1984]

1333/1600 Mar ram is certified tested and equitable for use on Intel cpu's by Intel. 1333/1600/1866 for AMD. This is the default speeds of ram. The (OC) just means that the board is capable of recognising and using the higher speed ram, but instead of using the default settings it can use XMP profiles, or manual user settings to raise performance (overclocking 1600 to 1866 etc).

You as a user wouldn't see any advantage in faster ram for majority of games, the differences are negligible between 1600 and 1800 when using a cpu and dedicated gpu as the gpu has its own memory, but you would see a difference with an APU or igpu as that uses system memory instead.

As far as the Gigabyte z97 vrs the other h97 goes, the z97 has options. You can, maybe, upgrade in the future to a stronger K series cpu, the z boards usually have differing capabilities like Sata express, m.2, upgraded audio codecs, more USB ports, fan headers, better software etc that may or may not be included on the h97. Then again, it's Gigabyte too, so even if it was the h97, and the z97 was Biostar, I'd spend the extra for the Gigabyte. Somethings are just worth the piece of mind.

Personally I'd go with the Gigabyte z97 and the 1600MHz ram.

Errr don't you mean

peace of mind ?

 

[Karadjgne]

2400 has @ 2x the bandwidth of 1600, so if you were running high cpu usage programs using extremely large files then yes, there would be an advantage to using 2400 over 1600, but the vast majority of games use small files just for the express purpose of compatability with lower end systems allowing a much broader user base. If minimum requirements for bf4 were CF 290s, SLI 780s and 8350 at 4.6GHz /i7 4770k at 4.4GHz running 2400MHz ram, nobody but a select few would be able to play. Just for example.

So, games are built for low end systems, so most everyone can play, meaning there isn't any real advantage to 2400s faster speed and larger bandwidth.

 

[Karadjgne]

Lol, yeah, stupid phone autocorrect heh.