Fastest memory for the Intel NUC Hades Canyon NUC8i7HVK?

[baydude]

Planning to put 512GB Samsung 970 Pro M.2 NVMe but need help on the memory.

Here it says it supports two DDR4 2400 MHz SDRAM SO-DIMMs
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/s.../mini-pcs/nuc-kits/NUC8i7HVK_TechProdSpec.pdf

What's the fastest 32GB (2x 16GB) memory sticks I can put in?
Will this memory stick work?
CORSAIR Vengeance Performance 32GB (2 x 16G) 260-Pin DDR4 SO-DIMM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Memory (Notebook Memory) Model CMSX32GX4M2A3000C16

 

[UsandThem]

You might have to contact Corsair to see if that RAM is compatible with your NUC. For whatever reason, they gave up updating their "RAM finder" tool on their website a few years ago.

However, G Skill and Crucial have a "RAM finder" on their websites that's actually kept up to date.

Here is the results from Crucial: http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Intel/nuc8i7hvk

http://gskill.com/en/configurator

G Skill has several Intel NUCs listed, but not your particular model number (although you can contact them, and they could tell if it would work or not):

http://gskill.com/en/configurator?manu=57&chip=2488&model=2798

 

[baydude]

If the memory specs says it supports DDR4-2400, does that mean it won’t support or take advantage of anything over 2400?

 

[UsandThem]

If the memory specs says it supports DDR4-2400, does that mean it won’t support or take advantage of anything over 2400?

It could be the limitation of the motherboard in there.

 

[Campy]

If the memory specs says it supports DDR4-2400, does that mean it won’t support or take advantage of anything over 2400?

GamersNexus had memory running at 3200 on their Hades Canyon NUC. I don't know what kind of options exist for timings and subtimings though.

 

[baydude]

I couldn't find any 2x16GB DDR4-3200 260-pin for sale so I went with the G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4-3000 260-pin 2x16GB. Hopefully it'll be stable.

 

[Tigerman82]

I couldn't find any 2x16GB DDR4-3200 260-pin for sale so I went with the G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4-3000 260-pin 2x16GB. Hopefully it'll be stable.

How did your G.Skill DDR4-3000 RAM work out with the NUC? Is it stable? Do you find it worthy of the price difference over cheap DDR4-2400 value RAM? Based on what I've read, apparently you have to manually enable XMP to get these G.Skill RAMs to work in their intended higher frequencies (some of the other brands are just plug and play)? Is this true? Did you have to set the timings too? A guy mentioned that he wasn't able to get the timings right with this NUC and this RAM.

I have my Hades Canyon coming in the mail and am still wondering about which RAM to use. I'm at a point where Crucial (value RAM) DDR4-2400 CL17 would cost 110 euros, Corsair Vengeance DDR4-2400 CL16 120 euros, this G.Skill DDR4-3000 RAM CL 16 140 euros and HyperX DDR4-3200 CL20 160 euros. The G.Skill 3000 has nice specs and I'm told the sweet spot of RAM speed is currently around 2800-3000MHz. On the other hand, it's still pretty much the general opinion that you should just get the cheapest RAM you can get your hands on as long as the motherboard supports it.

 

[baydude]

How did your G.Skill DDR4-3000 RAM work out with the NUC? Is it stable? Do you find it worthy of the price difference over cheap DDR4-2400 value RAM? Based on what I've read, apparently you have to manually enable XMP to get these G.Skill RAMs to work in their intended higher frequencies (some of the other brands are just plug and play)? Is this true? Did you have to set the timings too? A guy mentioned that he wasn't able to get the timings right with this NUC and this RAM.

I have my Hades Canyon coming in the mail and am still wondering about which RAM to use. I'm at a point where Crucial (value RAM) DDR4-2400 CL17 would cost 110 euros, Corsair Vengeance DDR4-2400 CL16 120 euros, this G.Skill DDR4-3000 RAM CL 16 140 euros and HyperX DDR4-3200 CL20 160 euros. The G.Skill 3000 has nice specs and I'm told the sweet spot of RAM speed is currently around 2800-3000MHz. On the other hand, it's still pretty much the general opinion that you should just get the cheapest RAM you can get your hands on as long as the motherboard supports it.

I used the XMP profile and didn't have to set any timings. It's been pretty stable and no issues experienced. Never tried to cheap DDR4-2400 value RAM but pretty happy about the purchase.