- Jan 28, 2013
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Hi there kind folks,
I've may have done something dumb without really thinking it through, and now I need some serious advice, Heres how the story goes:
I recently threw together a new Haswell powered system, The Motherboard is a Gigabyte G1.Sniper, Z87 chipset with a Core I7 4770 CPU non K, and a Samsung 840 Pro SSD 256GB.
Now all that's left is the RAM, This is where i think i messed up, I purchased a 32GB set of Corsair Vengeance RAM 4x8GB at a speed of 2400mhz from Amazon, heres the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-2400MHz-Memory-CMY32GX3M4A2400C11R/dp/B00GM83C86
But once i received them, I discovered that there may be an issue running them in my configuration, Something about the CPU and motherboard having to support it, I checked the manual for the board and it says it supports "Extreme memory profiles" I assumed it mean't it supports these high speed rams, but now I'm having doubts, I didn't try to plug them in yet as I didn't want to risk damaging anything if they are not compatible,
So my questions are:
1. Will they even work on my system even at lower speed?
2. What speed will these RAM's run at out of the box? CPU can only run 1600mhz max.
3. What does XMP do? And Will it run the RAM at its factory speed?
I'd really appreciate you guys help with this, I'm hoping I don't have to send them back as i was really excited about getting them.
Any answers would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I've may have done something dumb without really thinking it through, and now I need some serious advice, Heres how the story goes:
I recently threw together a new Haswell powered system, The Motherboard is a Gigabyte G1.Sniper, Z87 chipset with a Core I7 4770 CPU non K, and a Samsung 840 Pro SSD 256GB.
Now all that's left is the RAM, This is where i think i messed up, I purchased a 32GB set of Corsair Vengeance RAM 4x8GB at a speed of 2400mhz from Amazon, heres the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-2400MHz-Memory-CMY32GX3M4A2400C11R/dp/B00GM83C86
But once i received them, I discovered that there may be an issue running them in my configuration, Something about the CPU and motherboard having to support it, I checked the manual for the board and it says it supports "Extreme memory profiles" I assumed it mean't it supports these high speed rams, but now I'm having doubts, I didn't try to plug them in yet as I didn't want to risk damaging anything if they are not compatible,
So my questions are:
1. Will they even work on my system even at lower speed?
2. What speed will these RAM's run at out of the box? CPU can only run 1600mhz max.
3. What does XMP do? And Will it run the RAM at its factory speed?
I'd really appreciate you guys help with this, I'm hoping I don't have to send them back as i was really excited about getting them.
Any answers would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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