If my google-fu is any good today, DDR3 maxes out at 2133.  DDR4 seems to
go up to 3200[1]. The motherboard claims to support all speeds.

This RAM is supposed to be DDR4-2400, but if it keeps things happy, I'll
run it at 2133.

[1] https://www.kingston.com/us/memory/ddr4

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 7:28 AM Mike Pumford <micha...@bsquare.com> wrote:

> On 24/01/2018 12:11, Nimrod Levy wrote:
> > The RAM was detected by the MB as 2400.  I didn't change it until I set
> > it to the slower speed.
> >
> I guess the Intel motherboards I have are more conservative then. They
> default to the standard RAM profile (slower than what it is sold as) and
> you have to explicitly enable the faster profiles (which do also come
> from data  read from RAM). So it seems like your BIOS vendor is picking
> the faster profile as a default.
>
> I've got a couple of intel systems like this (one windows and one BSD)
> and neither ran stable with the faster RAM profiles.
>
>  From what I read at the time 2133 is the official upper limit of the
> DDR4 standard. Any speed faster than that is an overclock profile.
>
> Mike
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