Memory performance may be affected.
Memory performance may be affected.
From the site, the highest speed for XMP must be activated in BIOS or AWCC. Only Dell Certified Kingston XMP memory is compatible.
You're probably spending a lot on RAM from Alienware if you want genuine speeds, especially with prebuilt systems using their own boards that restrict RAM performance. A friend's HP Omen had the same problem—can't get any RAM to work at XMP profiles beyond the single stick included. It's frustrating since this lack of compatibility and upgrade options wasn't clearly advertised before it became a big issue.