[SOLVED] Can I use 3600Mhz RAM with 3200Mhz RAM and do I want to?

[tomseurocat]

I currently have G Skill Flare X 8GB x2 at 3200Mhz set of RAM in my machine. Can it be paired with a G Skill Ripjaws V 8GB x2 at 3600Mhz or will that through things into a tizzy? I'm looking to switch from a R7 1700 to an R5 3600 because of the clock speed.

 

[cdrkf]

I currently have G Skill Flare X 8GB x2 at 3200Mhz set of RAM in my machine. Can it be paired with a G Skill Ripjaws V 8GB x2 at 3600Mhz or will that through things into a tizzy? I'm looking to switch from a R7 1700 to an R5 3600 because of the clock speed.

If you pair faster ram with slower ram, it will run at the speed of the slower ram. Honestly though for a Ryzen 5 3600, 3200mhz ram should be fine (Hardware unboxed did a big memory scaling test and they found tweaking your timings on 3200mhz ram resulted in same performance as 3600mhz ram).