What Happens If You Put DDR5 RAM in a DDR4 Motherboard?

Just to clarify DDR5 is not backwards compatible with DDR4, it's a completely different DIMM slot There will be DDR4 and DDR5 Alder Lake

Reminder: DDR4 RAM Won't Fit Into DDR5 Slots and Vice Versa As you can see, the layout for the connectors is slightly different So don't jam

ddr5 in ddr4 slot And you could get them in tall or short, right hand or left hand so you could fill 4x 72-pin slots with a total or 16x 30-pin simms from the

ddr5 slot You need to choose a z690 or b660 that supports ddr4 Should be in the name, for sure in the specs Edit: z690 is fully overclockable (cpu and