MOBO/Memory Question

[Tsukashi]

I have a pretty old board (relatively speaking). I have a new build planned, but wanted to slowly upgrade into it as money is available, but I don't want to go ham and have no safety net. 

I currently have an Asus Z170-A board, and when looking it up the memory speed caps at 3200. My new build I've planned to use Corsair's Vengeance RGB Pro's, 3600 CL-18. 

My question is, can I still use the new memory in the old board for now, manually setting the speed to match the capacity? Or does this cause any other problems that I should probably avoid?

PS. New build is an AMD build, while current is Intel. I don't have an AMD cpu, so I was saving the mobo/cpu purchase for later as that's a larger chunk of the build.

[Misguided Penguin]

Yes the new ram should work in your older motherboard, it will just run at 3200mhz.

[boggy77]

yes you can use a lower speed. all DDR4 by default runs at 2133. the corsair kit being 3600 only means it was tested by corsair and can be overclocked to 3600, and they were also kind enough to save that overclocking profile as an xmp profile on the sticks. that doesn't limit you to try to overclock it further (as many people do) or overclock only to 3200 if that is the limit of the motherboard or CPU.

[Tsukashi]

Thanks for the info guys, appreciate it.

[Jurrunio]

You can go check in the BIOS whether it has options over 3200MHz, it's possible they said nothing about higher frequencies because no kit at the time passed their tests (or they didnt try those kits, back then going beyond 3200 is expensive)