topic Re:Higher Speed RAM on Pentium Silver N5000.?? in Mobile and Desktop Processors

Higher Speed RAM on Pentium Silver N5000.??

heyrobbie — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 02:00:57 GMT

hello...i am wondering if i can put a 8 Gb 2666mhz or 3200mt/s Ram on an Intel Pentium Silver N5000.....which has 4Gb 2400mhz on it expandable upto 8......can higher speed ram be put in it.??

Re:Higher Speed RAM on Pentium Silver N5000.??

Sebastian_M_Intel — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 22:19:48 GMT

Hello heyrobbie,

Thank you for posting on the Intel® communities.

Please visit the product specifications site: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/128990/intel-pentium-silver-n5000-processor-4m-cache-up-to-2-70-ghz.html

Under Memory Specifications, you will see it goes up to 2400 MT/s. Also, as this is a Mobile processor, it should be installed in a laptop (most likely), so you will need to check with the system manufacturer (OEM) for the RAM compatibility.

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Sebastian M

Intel Customer Support Technician

Re: Re:Higher Speed RAM on Pentium Silver N5000.??

heyrobbie — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:26:53 GMT

Yes...its an ASUS laptop X507MA....i suppose then it supports RAM speeds upto 2400 MT/s only....not above.

Re:Higher Speed RAM on Pentium Silver N5000.??

Sebastian_M_Intel — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 18:50:50 GMT

Hello heyrobbie,

Thanks for your reply.

The CPU is limited to go up to 2400 MT/s, but that also depends on the laptop. You may want to double-check with Asus* for this.

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Regards,

Sebastian M

Intel Customer Support Technician

Re: Re:Higher Speed RAM on Pentium Silver N5000.??

faduck — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 22:25:10 GMT

I installed DDR4-3200 and it works fine but it runs at 2400Mhz.

2666Mhz should be fine.

Re: Higher Speed RAM on Pentium Silver N5000.??

ProDigit — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:17:33 GMT

Old question but here's my response from 4 years in the future:

If 2400Mt ram modules are hard to find, you can install faster ram.

It will still run at 2400MT/s just fine.
There is only one benefit of running higher speed modules, and that's CAS latency.

Overall CAS latency reduction accounts for less than 1% of speed improvement at the same frequency, so you won't necessarily see a speedup boost.

However, if modules are priced in the same price category (2400 vs faster memory), go for the faster memory.

If the price difference between modules is more than $5-10, then you're better off going for more memory.