Question Newbie - Can my motherboard handle the ram I bought?

[SpaceTigerCross]

Hi Everyone,

I bought a PC from Dell - love it, was looking to do a ram upgrade. I provided my system specs to the lovely human at the store, and he told said... get this it will be an upgrade and you should see improvement.

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/produc...hz-desktop-memory-cmk16gx4m2d3600c18/14950686

My original ram was running at 2666, the new installed ram is running at 2133.

My motherboard is an XDXJD9, Intel H370. I ran CPU-Z, and based on what I understand it can do the XMP 2.0, so I should be able to run the higher ram... but again I could totally be not understanding what I'm reading haha.

So, will my motherboard run the ram I bought and I'm just not able to see the BIOS settings for enabling XMP, or do I not have XMP period and I should return the RAM? Can I run something higher than 2666?

 

[Wolfshadw]

Unfortunately, that's really up to Dell and whether or not they locked down the BIOS. If you're not finding the XMP setting in BIOS, this is likely the reason why and your RAM will run at the max speed Dell set up.

-Wolf sends

 

[Dakshthenoob]

How much gb ram did u install?

 

[SpaceTigerCross]

Hello 16gb. 2 x8.