Did I buy the wrong memory? (DDR3 vs DDR4 for Skylake H110 chipset mobo)

[h3r3t1k]

I'm new to Skylake and have just bought a i3-6100. It said it supports DDR4-2133 which is what I got. Now I got confused because the specs of my Asus H110 board only mention DDR3: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/H110M-K-D3/specifications/ What's going on?

 

[Dragos Manea]

Your motherboard supports only ddr3-1866, well dont worry, it will decrease your ram frequency with maximum supported by motherboard. It will work dont worry.

 

[geofelt]

Skylake can support either DDR4 or low voltage DDR3.
Which is determined by your particular motherboard.
Because you need low voltage ram, check that the DDR3 kit you bought is compatible.
The ram vendor will have a ram selection app. Verify that your ram is on the list of supported kits for your motherboard.

 

[h3r3t1k]

I'm sorry there was a typo. What I got is DDR4-2133. I also got two sticks of DDR3-1333. Will this work and will it perform OK?

 

[Tradesman1]

The DDR4 won't work on your mobo at all. The 1333 might work but also might well bottleneck things - I'd return the mobo and get one that supports DDR4. While the CPU is backward compatible to DDR3 it doesn't make a lot of sense to build with DDR3 when the CPU is native to 2133 DDR4

 

[buai]

The cpu supports DDR3 and DDR4. The mobo will only take DDR3 and DDR3L. You can change either the RAM or the mobo. My choice would be to change the mobo to DDR4.