What is XMP and Should I turn it on?

I have DDR5 -6000 paired with i9-12900k I hear about XMP and wasnt sure if i should turn it on and im not sure what it is
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Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
XMP allows your RAM to work at the speed you bought it for. Otherwise it is limited to a much lower baseline spd. So yes, if you bought 6000 mt/s and want to get more than 4800 mt/s, you should activate it. (You can also not enable XMP and manually tune that, but uh, let's put it like this, if you ask this question, you're very much not ready to do manual memory timing 😄 ) Also, you ended up going with the 12900k over the 7700x, I see.
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
Lol alrighty thank you i did! $450 for i9-12900k, mobo, ddr5 6000 killer deal
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
And how was the 7700x combo?
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
plus someone said there was stability issues with the 7700x that one was $400
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
They did say so. It wasn't false per se, but it was already addressed and wasn't ever really much of an issue. Well, the 12900k will serve you well. I'd have personally gone for the other one. But it's not like the 12900 is bad by any means. :3
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
Yea i kinda figured it can be "blown out of proportion" but im already using intel and ik the i9-12900k is a killer cpu that will last me a while
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
Yeah. As I said in that thread, if you don't plan to upgrade in the next ~4 years, the fact it's a dead-end platform doesn't matter that much. And if you plan to do a lot of super-highly threaded productive work, it's better. It's worse for single-threaded content like gaming though.
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
im using a bequiet shadow rock 3 to cool it ah thats unfortunate but it will sure be better than my i7-8700
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
I suggested the Thermalright peerless assassin to you.
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
ill upgrade to a 240 aio probably is that a cooler? sorry im forgetful
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
Yes.
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
Noted, went for the shadow rock 3 bc of price/budget
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
PA costs $40-55.
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
Damn :c
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
And is as good as coolers twice the price.
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
i dont thubk i saw your message about that originally unfortunately or i forgot </3 but ill take note of that
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
Ahhh kk
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
But yes, keep the Peerless Assassin in mind. Here's the Tom's Hardware review:
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Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
always spends a lot of time researching before pulling the trigger on PC purchases.
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
Damn nice pa120se?
DiamondRyce
DiamondRyce16mo ago
The shadow rock 3 is probably fine as well. You won't need to change it.
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
Lol alright
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
SE vs non-SE is just rgb, I think.
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
ill keep yall up to date on temps when i get it up and running lol
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
👌
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
i was gonna say i now have a "starfield ready pc" but honestly noone pcs will handle the soon to be beautiful broken mess of a game
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
Bethesda have a long history of their games running like utter shit on PC since they started designing them for consoles first.
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
Yuppp
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
I still remember Fallout 3 crashing when you entered houses due to people having the most common media codec installed on their computers.
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
haha
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
And Oblivion 3 had every "enchanted" item lose its texture and appear as a white/black mess.
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
recently i got back into oblivion and had to install a few stutter fixes and stuff and a alt tab fix which is a godsend
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
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Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
This is a good air flow combo right? Juat wanna make sure the 2 top exhaust fans wont mess with cooling the cpu or something
Thunder_God
Thunder_God16mo ago
Uh. The science of fans is beyond me. I'd try a different thread for that one. G'luck.
Birdie
BirdieOP16mo ago
lol alrightyy
DiamondRyce
DiamondRyce16mo ago
Even amount of intake to exhaust. You might not need the top two but check your temps
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Unknown User16mo ago
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