Hi forum

I want to upgrade my pc with the new i9 14900K. What RAM should I buy? 6000 cl30 or 7200 cl34?

I want it to be plug and play with XMP (no RAM manual overclocking). I am thinking about buying the Asus Maximus Z790 Hero high-end motherboard.

I use my PC mostly for gaming and video rendering.

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Thanks in advance

Mingusus

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  • MingususOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ll go with the 6000 cl30 RAM👍

    Thx for all your replies!

  • FromarineBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Just so you know all the overcooking 2 ram slot boards are the only time ur all but guaranteed 7200xmp will work. It’s just that so little people buy them they’re not even considered despite being the best for even stock performance and they all tend to have very high quality parts unlike the ‘we know rich people will buy this bcuz it costs the most’ kind of boards above it in price that tend to actually use worse parts lmao.

  • DarkoneRedditsBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    if you get the asus apex encore you are almost 100% guranteed to get 8000xmp tweaked working, i’ve tried 5 different 14900K cpus on my apex encore motherboard and all were stable in 8000mhz xmp.

    that being said, if you get any other motherboard i heard its very likely you wont go over 7200 on the ram, the apex encore is special as it only features 2 ram slots and if you are going to buy it make sure you buy 2x single rank memory modules to reach 8000, preferably look at the QVL.