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- Jul 28, 2016
I'm going to upgrade an old Alienware Area 51 7500 - circa 2006 - with new Skylake internals.
This is the MB I've chosen:
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII RANGER LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
It says DDR4 3400 (OC) for memory.
Do I purchase DDR4 3400 if I am not going to Overclock? Or do I buy DDR3200? Price diff is about $40 in the 32GB size I'm considering.
I'm getting a C i7-6700K, but don't intend to overclock it. I'm not psyched to get the 3400 memory if the default settings are going to run it slower unless I go to the trouble of OC. I'm sure this MB has very easy OC support, I'm just not interested in messing with that at this time.
Thanks,
wg
This is the MB I've chosen:
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII RANGER LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
It says DDR4 3400 (OC) for memory.
Do I purchase DDR4 3400 if I am not going to Overclock? Or do I buy DDR3200? Price diff is about $40 in the 32GB size I'm considering.
I'm getting a C i7-6700K, but don't intend to overclock it. I'm not psyched to get the 3400 memory if the default settings are going to run it slower unless I go to the trouble of OC. I'm sure this MB has very easy OC support, I'm just not interested in messing with that at this time.
Thanks,
wg