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Hello, I am new here so I apologise if this has already been answered elsewhere.

 

I have recently built my first gaming pc (see system specs below) and have installed 2x 8GB 2400MHz RAM.

I have gone into the bios and the Ram is running at the default speed the motherboard has set at from factory settings at 1333MHz.

There is the option to change it to 2400MHz however after looking around I wanted to make sure that my system would run fine if I just changed the speed and nothing else.

Do I need to up the voltage on the RAM to cater for the higher frequency? 

I also understand the RAM works in conjunction with the CPU so would I need to increase the voltage on the CPU when increasing the speed of the ram past factory default speeds to cater for this?

I could not find anything helpful online and want to make sure that I am doing it correctly as I don't want to damage anything.

 

I would appreciate any help with this as I am still learning so I thought this forum would be a good place to start to get some help on this.

 

System Specs:
Corsair C70

Zotac GTX 660 2GB 

Samsung 840 EVO 250GB

Asus Sabertooth 990fx R2.0

AMD 8350 4.0GHz

G Skill PC3-19200 16gb (2x 8GB) 2400MHz 

Corsair H100i

Corsair RM 750w 80+ Gold

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Try look for XMP profiles. You either select it from a list, or just set the speed, voltage and timings according to the specs.

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