Is it possible to put RAM with a higher frequency than the laptop itself supports?

Question

laptops

Hello! I use the ASUS Zenbook UX310UQ laptop.
There is a built-in 4GB RAM. There is an empty slot. Supported maximum memory frequency - 2133 MHz. The maximum amount of memory is 32 GB. Can I put RAM at 2400 or 2666 MHz with 8GB memory?

Answer 1

In general, theoretically - yes, it is possible, and it will have to work at the frequency that the laptop supports. But there are pitfalls:

• The BIOS may try to read and apply parameters from the SPD module, and since there, the frequency is higher than the supported one - it will not work, most likely the computer will not boot in this situation
  
• There may be a conflict in timings between modules.
  

In general, as they usually do: they go to the store with a laptop, they insert memory in the store - if it doesn’t start, then they try another one. They buy the one that works.
If the laptop had a BIOS that allows you to manually set the memory frequency and all timings, you could run any bar without problems, but usually all these options are not displayed in laptop BIOSes, so you have to experiment. But the memory itself doesn’t care - they are already produced from the factory as 2133 MHz, and then the best modules at the factory are overclocked to 3600 MHz, for example, and are sold expensively, modules are worse up to 3000 MHz and are sold a little cheaper, and so on.

Answer 2

I tried to put ddr 1600 in my laptop, with 1333 supported, it didn’t get up

Answer 3

The memory must operate at the maximum frequency supported by the laptop. Although, yesterday I installed DDR4-2933 in a laptop, its maximum is 2400 MHz, and for some reason the memory worked at 1866, with timings from the 2400 mode ... There are no settings in the BIOS, the 2400 mode is officially supported by the memory. I chose XMP memory (with overclocking profiles) not for the possibility of overclocking, but in order to get the minimum timings in 2400 mode
. the new memory refused to work at the prescribed frequency of 2400, I do not advise buying memory with XMP in a laptop with a truncated bios.