Can I use a RAM speed between listed values?

[writ]

Hello,

I have these 2x8 GB G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 SDRAM 2133 sticks of memory:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231571

I am looking for a good motherboard for it. Sometimes Newegg is confusing and seems to randomly post specs to some parts and not to others, which throws me off because I don't want to assume. For example, this motherboard:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813121605

It would list
DDR3 2400+ / 1600/1333/1066
for compatibility, which doesn't list my 2133. Would a board like this be compatible with 2133? Other boards would explicitly list 2133 sometimes.

Thanks,
writ

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Depending on the cpu used, that board would support the Ripjaws listed but would require you to adjust the settings in the BIOS. All the boards I know of would require you to adjust the settings of the ram in order to run at that speed. Fortunately, unless you are benchmarking, you would notice zero difference in real world applications with that ram running at a default slower speed.

 

[writ]

Thank you thank you thank you, just want to check that nothing will crash and burn. It sounds like as long as the RAM types are the same, there wouldn't be any harm in setting the RAM to any speed setting, and worse comes worse is that RAM will just peak out at the highest allowable speed. I'll be using an ivy bridge i7 3770k CPU so I don't think I'll have an issue there.

 

[Don Karnage]

Do not buy an intel motherboard. You want something like this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...pk=maximus%20v