Help with understanding memory.

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Airbrushkid

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It's been about 8 years since the last pc I built. And still using it as I type. I just bought a i9 11900K. And bought Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB 288-Pin DDR4 3600. I have had it for about 1 1/2 months waiting for other parts. I decided to look thru the cpu specs. And I notice it said for memory use. To use DDR 3200. Simple can I still use the DDR 3600 memory?

Thank you for looking
 
Airbrushkid said:
It's been about 8 years since the last pc I built. And still using it as I type. I just bought a i9 11900K. And bought Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB 288-Pin DDR4 3600. I have had it for about 1 1/2 months waiting for other parts. I decided to look thru the cpu specs. And I notice it said for memory use. To use DDR 3200. Simple can I still use the DDR 3600 memory?

Thank you for looking
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Yes. It will down clock itself to 3200. At the same time, you might still be able to run 3600 with XMP.
 
Airbrushkid said:
It's been about 8 years since the last pc I built. And still using it as I type. I just bought a i9 11900K. And bought Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB 288-Pin DDR4 3600. I have had it for about 1 1/2 months waiting for other parts. I decided to look thru the cpu specs. And I notice it said for memory use. To use DDR 3200. Simple can I still use the DDR 3600 memory?

Thank you for looking
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Not only can you use the DDR4 3600MHz RAM, you can clock it to DDR4 3600MHz speeds.
 
Thank you guys. I thought I screwed up and could not return the memory. So why does intel say to use the DDR 3200? Or is it the minimum speed?
 
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Airbrushkid said:
Thank you guys. I thought I screwed up and could return the memory. So why does intel say to use the DDR 3200? Or is it the minimum speed?
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It's an official specification of the maximum supported speed without overclocking.
 
Airbrushkid said:
Thank you guys. I thought I screwed up and could return the memory. So why does intel say to use the DDR 3200? Or is it the minimum speed?
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3200 is the maximum official speed a 11900k supports. Going beyond it is considered overclocking. It will not harm anything and will give you slightly better performance.
 
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