I7-6700k with underclocked memory specs

[William Gaatjes]

I just do not get it. Somebody i know buys an I7-6700k with an expensive motherboard and an expensive set of ddr4-3600 memory modules.
He dislikes AMD, only Intel and Nvidia rules.

According to him, i am a loser for just having an AMD APU.
But get this, he tells me he runs the memory on DDR4@2100Mhz with a lot of latency (auto settings) for that I7-6700K.
I ask him why he wants to do that. Because that defeats the purpose of buying a very expensive but fast cpu , MB and RAM. And not make use of it.
In all honesty, i do not mind. Everybody should do what they like.

But what i dislike, is that fanboyism for playing down AMD owners and then buying an I7 6700k (@4GHz) and not make use of the speed that cpu has.

 

[biostud]

mmmkay

 

[William Gaatjes]

Sorry for the rant. It just does not compute.

I should also note, he thinks virusscanners are bullshit.

 

[Bird222]

Sorry for the rant. It just does not compute.

I should also note, he thinks virusscanners are bullshit.

He will until he gets a virus.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I read up on the I7-6700k and the use of DDR4 and the comparison to DDR3. Seems i was not told the entire story. The standard spec is ddr4 memory at 2133MHz for the I7-6700K. But can be overclocked. It seems however (If i can believe the reviews) that in most workloads, the I7-6700K does not benefit from an increase from 2133MHz to 3200MHz. I guess the cache subsystem hides the latency so well for data sets that fit into the cache that one would never know.
So buying DD4-3600 is really no use for current available cpu's ?
With exception of upcoming apu's i assume.

 

[Bryf50]

Some games have shown significant improvement with faster memory. Fallout 4 is a big example.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Some games have shown significant improvement with faster memory. Fallout 4 is a big example.

Thank you. I only had old reviews to draw a conclusion from. It makes sense, that when the cache is no longer sufficient to hide the memory latency for the cpu , raw memory speed becomes more noticeable. That will be a road inwards to hbm enabled apu's with HSA in the future.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Thank you. I only had old reviews to draw a conclusion from. It makes sense, that when the cache is no longer sufficient to hide the memory latency for the cpu , raw memory speed becomes more noticeable. That will be a road inwards to hbm enabled apu's with HSA in the future.

Somehow, I recently read that 2666 is about the sweet-spot for a Z170 chipset and 6700K. You could get DDR4-3000 or better, and you might still want to run them in that speed range. And that's just an inference from what I read. . . .