Will faster than "supported RAM" work on Intel motherboards?

Harnser · 1 Dec 2020 at 17:14

I already bought the RAM (Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16, PVS416G320C6K) for an AMD build, which isn't happening right now as I can't get the CPU.

Can I use it in a different build on a ASRock H410M-HDV/M.2 motherboard?

The ASRock website says "Supports DDR4 2933 / 2800 / 2666 / 2400 / 2133 non-ECC, un-buffered memory*"

And the memory list doesn't feature this model PVS416G320C6K.

[Edit: alternative motherboard: MSI B460M-A PRO, https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B460M-A-PRO]

Tetras · 1 Dec 2020 at 19:28

It works, it just won't go higher than stock for the CPU, which can actually be lower than the board specifies (Z boards are different).

Harnser · 1 Dec 2020 at 20:15

Thanks, I can live with that. It was only a few pounds more than 2666 RAM.

pc-guy · 2 Dec 2020 at 22:53

It will gimp it down to the stock setting of the ram. If you 3200MHz ram stock setting is 2333Mhz that’s what it will run at. Not 2666MHz.