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motherboard and RAM

jamesfindlay3
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Hi i was watching one of linus tech tips build guides when i noticed that he used 2133mhz memory on a asus sabertooth mark 1. and when i looked at the specs of the board is said it could only take up too 1866 mhz, can you put more than the recomended amount of ram om a board or does this board take more than just 1866mhz ram? 

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some boards may support OCing

 

otherwise your RAM will just run at the max supported speeds

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The speed on the RAM stick is the just a rating for the highest speed it will run at. The speed of RAM is controlled in BIOS, which means if you use RAM with a higher rated clock than the motherboard can support it will only work at the lower clock speed the motherboard allows.

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Hopefully it is the ram that makes and in sabertooth enabling XMP activates the default overclock.

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