Does Skylake support ram faster than 2133?

[markmcleod50]

I bought 2 16gb sticks of Corsair Vegeance 3200 XMP for my Z170 Gaming 5 with a 4ghz i7 6700k. The ram reads as 2133 and the xmp profile 1 in Gigabyte's bios will not work (the machine reboots). From what I've read I can overclock it but I've also read that skylake can't even support it. Would I be better off returning this ram and getting 64gb of 2133?

 

[dexterns]

I have similar configuration with Z270 and i5. I read post about that and they say that you can clock your memory depending on speed of your CPU. I tried to use XMP profile and clocked memory to 3000MHZ and it's work well.

 

[pastrychef]

Yes, Skylake supports faster RAM. If you purchased 2133MHz RAM and your computer can't boot with it at that setting, return it.

 

[beelzebozo]

You need to read the manual of your motherboard.