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Chrkeller said:

I have CL36 5600 ram, 32 gb.  With my new rig it defaulted to 4800.  Is this normal?  Worth cranking to 5600?  I wasn't sure if I would notice real life improvements.

What is the CPU of your computer? Without XMP (Intel) or EXPO (AMD) being enabled in the BIOS it will default to the JEDEC standard that the chip is designed for, in your case DDR5-4800. You need to activate the feature in the BIOS and then choose the RAM speed in the options it provides.

As for the performance, you'll lose ~2-3% of performance, measurable but not really felt in most cases.