Hey guys. I'm really bad at hardware stuff, but I've tried quite hard to find answers by searching around on the net regarding this, but all I found is OC stuff... So I hope anyone here can give some tips 
I was recently given an i7-980 CPU, a motherboard and a bunch of RAM.
The motherboard is: Gigabyte - GA-X58A-UD5 Rev 2.0.
RAM says XMS 3 - CMX8GX3M2A2000C9. So, uh, 2000 MHz 8 GB. I have 16 GB of it in total.
So, what I'm unsure of is, can I use all of this together? I know that I can use the CPU with the motherboard, but I'm uncertain about the RAM. I've tried to research and find a lot of different stuff. Mostly overclocking stuff, which I admit I'm not really interested in at the moment. I've read that 2000 MHz is pretty unnecessary and might cause system instability?
Can I just slap in the 2000 MHz into this motherboard, and it'll all work fine, or? I'm worried I'll break it
Hopefully someone can help, I'd appreciate it a lot! Also I hope I posted this in the correct place.
I was recently given an i7-980 CPU, a motherboard and a bunch of RAM.
The motherboard is: Gigabyte - GA-X58A-UD5 Rev 2.0.
RAM says XMS 3 - CMX8GX3M2A2000C9. So, uh, 2000 MHz 8 GB. I have 16 GB of it in total.
So, what I'm unsure of is, can I use all of this together? I know that I can use the CPU with the motherboard, but I'm uncertain about the RAM. I've tried to research and find a lot of different stuff. Mostly overclocking stuff, which I admit I'm not really interested in at the moment. I've read that 2000 MHz is pretty unnecessary and might cause system instability?
Can I just slap in the 2000 MHz into this motherboard, and it'll all work fine, or? I'm worried I'll break it
Hopefully someone can help, I'd appreciate it a lot! Also I hope I posted this in the correct place.
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