New build, need advice.

[rod_trad]

Hi. everybody.

I'm just putting a rig together, I'm waiting for the parts to arrive. While I do that I realized that I bought 1866 RAM and the MoBo works at 1333/1600. So my question is, will that really make a difference? I'm not really a gamer, FSX, CS, some steam games mostly and for work I use Adobe's AE, PS, PR, and AutoCAD (mostly simple drawings) normally one program at a time (usually with iTunes, Chrome, and a couple of folders open)

My components are:
Asus H97M-E/CSM
Intel i5-4460 3.2GHz
Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB 1866 MHz
EVGA GeForce GTX960 2GB SSC ACX 2.0+
Kingston HyperX Savage 240 GB SSD (for boot and operating)
WD 1TB HDD (for storage only)
Cougar Challenger case
Cougar 550W 80+ Bronze CMX 550 PSU

Everything I've read online points to frequency not being that much of an issue, the differences are negligible and that I should enable XMP profile to get the actual 1866 MHz.
Still looking for an educated answer and some recommendations (if any) reagarding upgrades, configurations, settings, compatibility issues, whatever.

Thank you very much.

 

[badboyrog2]

``Cougar 550W 80+ Bronze CMX 550 PSU``

if you can cancel this crappy psu it will safe your life...not good at all
get seasonic/xfx/antec hcg-edge/evga b2-g2-gs

``Due to Intel® H97 chipset limitation, DDR3 1600 MHz and higher memory modules on XMP mode will run at the maximum transfer rate of DDR3 1600 Mhz``

 

[rod_trad]

``Cougar 550W 80+ Bronze CMX 550 PSU``

if you can cancel this crappy psu it will safe your life...not good at all
get seasonic/xfx/antec hcg-edge/evga b2-g2-gs

I haven't purchased the case or PSU yet, I'm waiting for the other parts to arrive.
The only PSU I can get within the brands you named is the Seasonic S12II-620 which is about US$15 more than the cougar.

``Due to Intel® H97 chipset limitation, DDR3 1600 MHz and higher memory modules on XMP mode will run at the maximum transfer rate of DDR3 1600 Mhz``

So in this case the XMP does nothing? because normal speed it's supposed to be 1600.

Anyway, what sort of difference will it make, is it worth it to get another mother board?

 

[badboyrog2]

i think your ram will work , the chipset will set automatically the speed of the ram to 1600mhz...
its possible to have a ram issues if its not compatible...so not easy to tell , give a try and see

 

[Guest]

Don't worry about the RAM issue.
I have 1866MHz Corsair Vengeance and didn't realise that my CPU only allowed for 1333MHz.
It just gets bottleneck to the maximum speed. No Issues at all, and defiantly not worth a new mobo.