Ram compatibility.

[CriminallyUncool]

Okay before I ask my question, please understand that I am a complete Noob when it comes to PC building. I am building my first custom gaming PC. Currently I am waiting to see benchmarks for the Ryzen chips before I make any big decisions. From what I hear Ryzen boards will support 2400mhz Ram. I was looking at the Gskill Trident Z RGB Ram, but can only find it in a 3200mhz variant. I have checked a few forms, I will admit pretty superficially, and can't find out if 3200mhz ram will work on a AM4 board.

[Guest]

It will work at lower speed in worse case

[Brooksie359]

4 minutes ago, CriminallyUncool said:

Okay before I ask my question, please understand that I am a complete Noob when it comes to PC building. I am building my first custom gaming PC. Currently I am waiting to see benchmarks for the Ryzen chips before I make any big decisions. From what I hear Ryzen boards will support 2400mhz Ram. I was looking at the Gskill Trident Z RGB Ram, but can only find it in a 3200mhz variant. I have checked a few forms, I will admit pretty superficially, and can't find out if 3200mhz ram will work on a AM4 board.

it would work just at lower speeds. the only thing im not certain of is if the lower speed would effect the rgb capability so that is something that would be very specific to this ram set.  

[Oshino Shinobu]

It will at least work at 2400MHz if that is the maximum the board supports. The RAM will downclock if needed.

[RadiatingLight]

it will totally work. no problem.

it will most likely have support for over 4Ghz RAM on high end boards.

 

any DDR4 will work with any DDR4 motherboard in most cases

[CriminallyUncool]

Yeah, I kind of figured that putting 3200 MHz Ram in a board that was configured for 2400 MHz would work fine, it would just cap the Ram at 2400. But I wasn't sure. I don't really want to go spend the premium price on RGB Ram just to have it not be compatible.

[RadiatingLight]

32 minutes ago, CriminallyUncool said:

Yeah, I kind of figured that putting 3200 MHz Ram in a board that was configured for 2400 MHz would work fine, it would just cap the Ram at 2400. But I wasn't sure. I don't really want to go spend the premium price on RGB Ram just to have it not be compatible.

most boards go much higher than 2400mhz though

[Princess Luna]

3 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

most boards go much higher than 2400mhz though

Not natively, usually above 2400mhz already is through RAM OC, thus why most locked motherboards like the h and b ones only go as high as 2400mhz, Until release its all speculation but I also believe Ryzen will support higher memories frequencies, in the worst case scenario it will all still work just not on full speed any ways.