Will this work? i5 2500 and ddr3-1600 ram

[cdboi]

ok so am building my own pc and was planning on getting the sandy bridge i5 2500 or 2400, the Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 Socket 1155 mother board and
Kingston T1 HyperX 8GB kit(2X4GB)Tall Heatsink 1600Mhz CL9 XMP Non-ECC

in new to this whole building a computer thing and this is my first build but on the i5 it only says DDR3-1066/1333 so am i waisting my money buying the 1600? or will it mess something up if i put it in? thanks

 

[wintermint]

No, you are not wasting your money. However, if you're not going with the k edition then you don't have to go with a z68. I would get the i5-2500k for an extra $10 and go with either p66 or z68 to overclock it. Some motherboard doesn't read 1600mhz unless you overclock.

 

[warhead0]

Yes, it will work together.

I currently use a Z68 board, with a 2500K and 1600Mhz G.Skill RAM.

Everything works perfectly together.

 

[cdboi]

may go with the 2500k but dont know anything about overclocking it and dont want to stuff up my cpu any good site that can show me how to do it? what i need etc