DDR4 vs DDR5: Why you don't need to upgrade your RAM for Intel

Your desktop PC's motherboard accepts only DDR4 memory That is the case for the Blizzard and BlizzardOC motherboard, one of which is in your

To be clear, DDR5 is not backward compatible with DDR4 because it uses a different DIMM slot DDR4 and DDR5 Alder Lake motherboards will be

ddr4 sodimm slot same total capacity Would it perhaps make sense to get DDR4 RAM instead of DDR5, since DDR4 has been around for longer and it's stability is

ddr4 in ddr5 slot No, it won't Even though both types have 288 pins, DDR4 and DDR5 memory is electrically incompatible The two types have a different notch