Compatibility

[Dogsparky]

The compatibility page on g.skill is a bit weird in terms of being direct so it is a bit unclear to me.

Is the ram speed (2400 MHz,3000mhz) the only thing that determines if it is compatible with my motherboard or not besides ddr4 vs ddr3/2 and so forth?

[tarfeef101]

1 minute ago, Dogsparky said:

The compatibility page on g.skill is a bit weird in terms of being direct so it is a bit unclear to me.

Is the ram speed (2400 MHz,3000mhz) the only thing that determines if it is compatible with my motherboard or not besides ddr4 vs ddr3/2 and so forth?

What determines compatibility is the RAM type (DDR4, DDR3, etc)

 

Speed only matters like this (for the most part): ALL SPEEDS will run at the default speed (2133 for DDR4) regardless of what the box says for the RAM kit unless you can overclock the RAM on your motherboard  (Z or X series chipset for Intel)

[APasz]

You as an enduser only have to worry about which standard you''re using, DDR3 with DDR3, DDR3L with DDR3L, DDR4 with DDR4, so on.

[Dogsparky]

2 minutes ago, tarfeef101 said:

What determines compatibility is the RAM type (DDR4, DDR3, etc)

 

Speed only matters like this (for the most part): ALL SPEEDS will run at the default speed (2133 for DDR4) regardless of what the box says for the RAM kit unless you can overclock the RAM on your motherboard  (Z or X series chipset for Intel)

So if I'm using the z170 gaming m5 by MSI then all I need is ddr4 ram with whatever desired speed it says it can use which is 2133 and the other specific ones that will let me over clock to so I could use any 2800mhz?

[APasz]

3 minutes ago, Dogsparky said:

So if I'm using the z170 gaming m5 by MSI then all I need is ddr4 ram with whatever desired speed it says it can use which is 2133 and the other specific ones that will let me over clock to so I could use any 2800mhz?

Any speed will work. Of course if you don't plan on overclocking anything at all, stick to around 2133mhz to save a few bucks.

[Dogsparky]

6 minutes ago, APasz said:

Any speed will work. Of course if you don't plan on overclocking anything at all, stick to around 2133mhz to save a few bucks.

I'm going to be enabling the xmp file so I get the full speed

[APasz]

19 minutes ago, Dogsparky said:

I'm going to be enabling the xmp file so I get the full speed

Then the higher the speed the better*.

[Dogsparky]

17 minutes ago, APasz said:

Then the higher the speed the better*.

So if I want lets 2800 then anything that is 2800mhz will work basically

[APasz]

Yeah.