New RAM won't work in new Motherboard

Kirkland

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Alrighty so a bit of a problem. I bought a new 8GB stick of RAM, DDR Corsair XMS, it's identical to my other stick BUT for the part that the new one is 1600mhz, while the old is 1333mhz. Now in my old motherboard there was seemingly no problems, however since then I have upgraded to a new CPU and motherboard and the stick simply won't run. 

Whenever I insert the stick, before, if it was solo or together with the other one, just infinite boot loop, I couldn't even get into bios. Now I changed some BIOS setting to automatically have the DRAM frequency at 1333mhz instead of ''Auto'', however now instead of just constantly restarting and looping, it just starts up once, fans work and stuff, however just black screen and nothing happens. 


Motherboard = asus b85m-g plus/usb 3.1
CPU = Xeon E3 1231 V3 
GPU = R9 380 MSI Gaming edition
PSU = Seasonic S12II-620
RAM = Corsair XMS3 8GB (1x 8GB) 1333MHz DDR3 RAM = Old stick that works perfectly. 
        = Corsair XMS3 8GB (1x 8GB) 1600MHz DDR3 RAM = New stick, doesn't work in new motherboard. 

Just saw that the new stick has a Latency Timing: CL11 while the old has a CL9, does that change anything? 
 
Solution
If the old memory kit or memory sticks are populating the first two memory slots of the motherboard.

Remove them, and place the two new ram sticks of the new memory kit into the same slots.

Power the system up and see if it posts.
Set up or check and confirm that the new memory stick, or sticks are running at the correct rated frequency or speed in the bios.

Save any changes you may have to make to the memory such as if you have to enable Xmp mode for memory, or disable it .

Shut the system down, then place the old memory stick in the second memory slot listed to be used for dual channel memory mode settings.

If you place the second memory stick in the wrong memory slot where you have four provided.
The result will be the system...
If the old memory kit or memory sticks are populating the first two memory slots of the motherboard.

Remove them, and place the two new ram sticks of the new memory kit into the same slots.

Power the system up and see if it posts.
Set up or check and confirm that the new memory stick, or sticks are running at the correct rated frequency or speed in the bios.

Save any changes you may have to make to the memory such as if you have to enable Xmp mode for memory, or disable it .

Shut the system down, then place the old memory stick in the second memory slot listed to be used for dual channel memory mode settings.

If you place the second memory stick in the wrong memory slot where you have four provided.
The result will be the system act funny.

Since you are now running two memory sticks you have to consult the motherboard manual on the exact slots out of the four provided that should be populated with memory sticks in order for dual channel memory mode to work correctly with your motherboard Kirkland.
 
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