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Memory Speed Limit on new Intel SkyLake NUCs?

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TheDarkKnight

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I am getting ready to purchase a new 6th gen Intel SkyLake NUC. From what I can tell you must purchase DDR4 memory to use in these NUCs as the memory slots are 260-pin DIMM slots.

I know that Intel says the NUC supports 2133MHz DDR4 but if I want to maximize my price-to-performance ratio on the money I spend, I wonder if the NUC will support and operate properly with faster memory speeds. Could I purchase and install DDR4-2800MHz memory chips and how would the performance scale. Would the extra money spent be worth the improved performance? If anybody can post links to reviewers who have already performed these sorts of tests please post them. If you have purchased one of these new 6th gen NUCs yourself and have firsthand knowledge and benchmarks that would be great also.

To summarize my question, can you run DDR4-memory chips in these new NUCs faster than the suggested cap of 2133MHz by Intel? Thanks for reading.
 
Unless they have the Z170 overclocking chipset, and support overclocking RAM, then they won't support any RAM speeds higher than 2133. So save your money.
 
VirtualLarry said:
Unless they have the Z170 overclocking chipset, and support overclocking RAM, then they won't support any RAM speeds higher than 2133. So save your money.
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What a killjoy! :X It really seems to fly in the face of common sense considering that the iGPU performance is heavily dependent on the memory speed.
 
Yeah, I know. A lot of people are disappointed with Intel, that Skylake can benefit so much from faster RAM, yet, only with a Z170 chipset and overclocking RAM, can you utilize anything faster than 2133. Which basically means enthusiast overclocking boards, and not OEM branded Skylake rigs, nor NUCs. (Although there is a "Skull Canyon" NUC coming out, possibly that will be using a Z170 chipset, and thus allow overclocked RAM?)
 
What exactly are you trying to do that requires higher speed memory in order to have usable graphics performance?
 
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