Use 2800Mhz RAM with a Xeon E3-1230 V5

The AsRock Fatal1ty E3V5 Performance Gaming/OC offers a DDR4 Non-Z OC, but can I use a RAM-Kit with 2800Mhz although the Xeon E3-1230 V5 only supports DDR4-2133Mhz. Thank you.

Mexelman wrote: The AsRock Fatal1ty E3V5 Performance Gaming/OC offers a DDR4 Non-Z OC, but can I use a RAM-Kit with 2800Mhz although the Xeon E3-1230 V5 only supports DDR4-2133Mhz. Thank you.

If you check the Overview page of your board, and look closely at the DDR4 Non-Z OC feature description, you'll find that you don't have direct access to the memory speed setting. You are given three options, Comfort, Sport, and Sport+. Comfort is no doubt the default, 2133 speed of most DDR4 memory. Sport+ might be the XMP profile setting of the memory, which would be the maximum advertised speed of the memory, but I'm not certain if that is true or not.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty%20E3V5%20Performance%20GamingOC/

The board's manual includes the DRAM frequency option, but that is limited to the maximum memory speed of the processor's memory controller.

Any memory speed above 2133 is a memory over clock for all Skylake processors, and not guaranteed to work. A successful memory OC depends upon the model of memory and the capacity being used. Larger capacities (32 - 64GB) are more difficult to OC higher. If the memory is ECC type, an OC is impossible.