Can I Install DDR5 RAM On A DDR4 Motherboard?

Physical Differences: DDR5 and DDR4 RAM sticks have different notches or key positions This means a DDR5 RAM stick won't fit into a DDR4 slot

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

ddr5 slot The placement of the DDR4 notch is different to the DDR5 version DDR5 is not backwards compatible with DDR4 motherboards and RAM modules

ddr5 in ddr4 slot In this short we explain that you cannot install DDR5 memory into a DDR4 slot , we also