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Can 533MHz RAM run in a MOBO that supports 1066 to 1600

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30 minutes ago, metroremix said:

I'm getting an  i5-2500  and a Asus-P8Q77, it only supports 1600.1333/1066MHz and my ram is 533MHz so I don't know if it will work.

Assuming its ddr3, then yes. This would be 1066 ram as its double data rate .

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I'm getting an  i5-2500  and a Asus-P8Q77, it only supports 1600.1333/1066MHz and my ram is 533MHz so I don't know if it will work.

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7 minutes ago, metroremix said:

I'm getting an  i5-2500  and a Asus-P8Q77, it only supports 1600.1333/1066MHz and my ram is 533MHz so I don't know if it will work.

though it could work, it is most likely ddr2 ram, judging by the clock speed, and the motherboard is ddr3

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I suspect that if the RAM you have is 533 MHz it's DDR1 and will not work with the DDR3 that the i5-2500 requires.

 

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how do you know your ram is 533MHz

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30 minutes ago, metroremix said:

I'm getting an  i5-2500  and a Asus-P8Q77, it only supports 1600.1333/1066MHz and my ram is 533MHz so I don't know if it will work.

Assuming its ddr3, then yes. This would be 1066 ram as its double data rate .

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533MHz is a indicator the RAM you have is DDR2

 

you cant run DDR2 on a DDR3 board.

 

DDR2 pins are not compatible with DDR3

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It is ddr3 and is currently running in a ddr3 MOBO and i got the info of the ram in cpu-z

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CPU-Z shows the clock rate of the RAM before it gets doubled to what the mobo and BIOS/UEFI will show you.

Piriform Speccy shows the un-doubled clock rate as well.

 

So when you see "667MHz" in CPU-Z or Speccy, then the mobo & BIOS/UEFI will show you "1333Mhz" which is what the RAM chips will actually be working at since it's Double Data Rate.

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