Vengeance DDR3 with an Asus Z170-A Motherboard

[Owen23]

We have purchased an Asus Z170-A motherboard, intel core i5 (6600K) processor, and Corsair Vengeance DDR3 - will all of these work together? My son is concerned about whether the Asus motherboard and the ram will be compatible. Thanks

 

[Suztera]

No. The Asus Z170-A only support DDR4, not DDR3. You would need to get DDR4 ram modules. Also you will need a cpu cooler as well since Intel no longer provides any cpu cooler with their k cpus.