will i have to overclock?

[WillLak]

my question is, is it completely necessary to over clock my ram to work with this build. or will the ram clock its self to a lower speed to meet the supported memory standard.

Intel Pentium G860 with a BIOSTAR Hi-Fi Z77X and 8 gb of gskill sniper 1600 mghz ram.

the clock is ticking before i have too order

 

[greenyoga]

Yes,overclock is neccessory.

 

[drescherjm]

The motherboard will set the ram to run at DDR3 1333 which is the maximum supported ram speed for the G860. The ram will work fine at a slower than stock speed.

http://ark.intel.com/products/53492/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G860-3M-Cache-3_00-GHz

To run the ram at DDR3 1600 you will have to overclock the memory controller on your CPU. DDR3 1600 should be an easy overclock.

 

[WillLak]

thank you. i ended up going with an i3 3220 and a msi Z77A-G45 with 8gb corsair vengeance running at 1600 mgz. and its running flawlessly.