Ddr4 3200mhz ram in a 2400mhz laptop

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Would DDR4 3200Mhz SODIMM ram work with my laptop which has RAM rated @ 2400Mhz.

Would it automatically clock down?

Reason I as is that I can get in cheaper than 2400Mhz sticks.

CPU is an i3 7th gen.
 
Timings should be the same as JEDEC profiles states certain timings for certain speeds.

If you're replacing the RAM it will go to the highest JEDEC profile (or XMP if the laptop supports it). If you're adding RAM to add work with the old one, then the faster RAM will drop to the speed of the slower one.
 
Orcvader said:
Timings should be the same as JEDEC profiles states certain timings for certain speeds.

If you're replacing the RAM it will go to the highest JEDEC profile (or XMP if the laptop supports it). If you're adding RAM to add work with the old one, then the faster RAM will drop to the speed of the slower one.
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mickyflinn said:
Timings will default to 2400mhz which shouldn't be a problem .
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Thanks chaps.

Could you guys recommend a RAM test app. I might have a faulty ram stick in another laptop of mine.
 
"Should clock down to 2400mhz but not gauranteed to be compatable."
Be careful - that's what I thought when I put 32GB of 3200 DDR4 RAM (which was advertised as being compatible with 2950 and 2666) in my son's laptop which turned out to have an intel processor from a generation designed for 2666 DDR4 .... the laptop insisted on chosing the 3200 speed and while all seemed intially ok (windows booted!) he had lots of crashes when he got back to Uni and started stressing the system with audio-production software .... when he made an emergency trip home for me to sort it out memtest86 immediately showed RAM problems (like in about 30 seconds) but when I'd swapped out the 3200 DDR4 and replaced it with 2666 DDR4 it was all fine (and fortunately the place I'd bought the inital set from fave me a refund without any issue). Also, the laptop BIOS was heavily locked down so there was no way in the BIOS to even see what the RAM speed was let alone tweak any settings!
 
deshepherd said:
"Should clock down to 2400mhz but not gauranteed to be compatable."
Be careful - that's what I thought when I put 32GB of 3200 DDR4 RAM (which was advertised as being compatible with 2950 and 2666) in my son's laptop which turned out to have an intel processor from a generation designed for 2666 DDR4 .... the laptop insisted on chosing the 3200 speed and while all seemed intially ok (windows booted!) he had lots of crashes when he got back to Uni and started stressing the system with audio-production software .... when he made an emergency trip home for me to sort it out memtest86 immediately showed RAM problems (like in about 30 seconds) but when I'd swapped out the 3200 DDR4 and replaced it with 2666 DDR4 it was all fine (and fortunately the place I'd bought the inital set from fave me a refund without any issue). Also, the laptop BIOS was heavily locked down so there was no way in the BIOS to even see what the RAM speed was let alone tweak any settings!
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Yeah this is an issue with locked out bios settings causing it.glad you got it fixed although I can't admit to seeing this problem and it just ran fine.
 
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