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2400Mhz RAM ok with G3258

phatboy

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Hi all

Hopefully a nice easy one

I have a g3258 as a stop gap in my new rig and want to take advantage of the £49.99 deal on the 2400mhz Vulcan RAM on sale at OCuk at the moment

I know the chip officially supports up to 1333 but will putting the 2400 in do anything bad to the chip/ motherboard or is the worst case I won't see the full potential until I buy my i5?

Just wanted to ask the peeps who know before I spend £50 :)

Ta
 
no it wont hurt,it will just run at 1333mhz

you can try higher idk if it will clock any higher than 1333mhz though,it also depends on the motherboard chipset

h97 are limited to 1600mhz
 
Board is a z87-g45 so should support the full speed

If it wont damage it I will go ahead regardless. Thanks for the info :)
 
Just looking into this some more this morning.....

Is 1.65v going to be safe here too? thats the biggest worry I have now
 
phatboy said:
Just looking into this some more this morning.....

Is 1.65v going to be safe here too? thats the biggest worry I have now
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The RAM will normally have an operational voltage range, 1.5-1.65 depending on the RAM. Either labelled on the side of the unit or check the manufacturers pages.
 
cool ok

it was the CPU memory controller I had the concerns with as the G3258 only rates 1333, but looking around everyone clocking it highly seems to be doing 2400 happily
 
32GB with a g3258? :eek::D surely whatever that needs that much ram could do with a beefier CPU? :p

i have some 2133 ram with my g3258 but can only run at 1400 because of my cheapo H81 chipset. :o
 
phatboy said:
Hi all

Hopefully a nice easy one

I have a g3258 as a stop gap in my new rig and want to take advantage of the £49.99 deal on the 2400mhz Vulcan RAM on sale at OCuk at the moment

I know the chip officially supports up to 1333 but will putting the 2400 in do anything bad to the chip/ motherboard or is the worst case I won't see the full potential until I buy my i5?

Just wanted to ask the peeps who know before I spend £50 :)

Ta
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Worth remembering the i5 only officially supports up to 1600MHz - so the Pentium isn't far off on theoretically supported speeds! Intel always are very conservative on supported RAM speeds, I'd not worry about it.
 
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