Motherboard and RAM compatibility

[isurvivorz]

Hi, my friend has recently purchased this Mobo and this RAM, as said on the description, the RAM is DDR3 1866 and the mobo DDR3 2400(OC)/1600/1333/1066, does this mean that RAM wont work on this mobo? or does it mean that it will work like how GPU work with mobo even tho it is PCIe2 and PCIe3.

Mobo: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128543

RAM: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231455

 

[alexoiu]

Hi, The RAMs are listed as compatible: http://www.gskill.com/configurator2.php?pid=2&model=1570
They will probably work at 1600. He can try enabling the XMP in BIOS and check the speed with CPU-Z.