Nub question about OC memory.

[Isaac Johnson]

For some reason I'm having a hard time finding a good answer to this question so I'm hoping someone here can help. Can you run overclocked (as in higher speed than the CPU officially supports) RAM on a non-unlocked CPU?

For example, could I run DDR4-3200 memory on a Z170 board (one that obviously supports at least that memory speed) with an i3-6100?

Thanks in advance.

[Spyd3r]

Theorheticallyy if you can up the fsb yes, thats old school style, I wouldnt bother. I dont OC memory anymore. Just CPu and sometimes GPU

[Meridian]

As he says: yes, most motherboards support independent memory overclocking, either by by bus speed or timings. But every current system is CPU-limited so you will detect no difference in anything except memory-specific benchmarks.