Memory Ram Question

Kagami Tsukino · September 3, 2017

I want to know is it possible to use higher speed ram on a motherboard when it spec doesn't say anything out it.

My motherboard is the ASRock ASRock Fatal1ty Gaming Fatal1ty 990FX. It memory Standard is DDR3 2450*(O.C.)/ 2100*/ 1600/ 1333/ 1066.

I want to know if I can use a 2133 or 1866. In questioning about the asterisk to the memory, I have no clue since it does not explain much on the site.

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I am trying to get another ram since my Corsair Vengence LP SDRAM 1600 4x4gb has multiple errors when I tested with Memtest86'. Was seeing it was my memory keeps crashing when I play games or not. Not going to get another corsair product, since I have a huge headache with that product malfunction on me.

Cyracus · September 3, 2017

yes it's possible, with ddr3 anything over like... 1600 mhz is technically overclocked. But ram sticks can fail on their own for various reasons at different speeds so if you can get it running at 1600.. .ram speed doesn't change much performance wise though