G.Skill DDR3 RAM F3-1600C11D-16GIS and Intel i3-4330. Are they XMP compatible?

[Pan_Melas]

Good day to all,

I have recently jumped from the old good LGA775 platform to the latest LGA1150, with a Gigabyte GA-Z87-D3HP Motherboard, an Intel i3-4330 CPU (Haswell) and an Aegis 16GB RAM kit from G.Skill. While trying to build my new PC, I noticed that the mobo BIOS supports XMP RAM DIMMs.

What I don't know is:
- Does the i3-4330 support XMP?
- Is my G.Skill kit XMP compatible? For your guidance, if someone checks the G.Skill site, he (or she) can see that there is a note saying:

Intel XMP Support

All G.SKILL DDR3 memory come with the latest Intel XMP standard developed for Intel platform. It provides PC enthusiasts an entirely trouble-free overclocking experience to boost their Intel® systems for extreme levels of performance, while retaining system stability.

But this note can only be found under certain model pages, presumably the top ones. I was not able to find it under the Aegis models.

I would appreciate if someone could clarify these two issues for me.

Thanks.
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[Ahmadjon]

CPU and motherboard are XMP compatible but not sure for the RAM however it's a really old RAM but I think it supports XMP, you have to try to enable XMP to know.

 

[Pan_Melas]

Thank you for your post, Ahmadjon. It is good for me to know that at least, the CPU is XMP compatible (for the motherboard I already knew it, it is mentioned in the manual).

It is a good tip to notice that a trial would prove whether this RAM DIMM is XMP compatible or not. I will check it, after completion of the PC assembly and I will post the results, so everyone knows the compatibility or not of it.

Cheers
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[Ahmadjon]

Thank you for your post, Ahmadjon. It is good for me to know that at least, the CPU is XMP compatible (for the motherboard I already knew it, it is mentioned in the manual).

It is a good tip to notice that a trial would prove whether this RAM DIMM is XMP compatible or not. I will check it, after completion of the PC assembly and I will post the results, so everyone knows the compatibility or not of it.

Cheers
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Good Luck!

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

G.Skill AEGIS has no XMP profile.

 

[gskill support]

- Does the i3-4330 support XMP?

Yes, it can support up to DDR3-1600 (XMP-1600).

- Is my G.Skill kit XMP compatible?

No, it is not necessary because it is CL11. The RAM is plug and play so it does not require XMP to enable settings. The motherboard will automatically detect and use them properly after they are installed. Only kits better than DDR3-1600 CL11 will need XMP Profile, such as DDR3-1600 CL9, DDR3-1866 CL10, so forth..

Thank you
GSKILL SUPPORT

 

[Ramjam]

Yes DDR3 1600 is XMP compatible - that's the starting point for using XMP