Will server just not recognize memory sticks or downgrade to max supported speed of 2400 MT/s? Memory sticks I had in mind are from my desktop that can run at 2800 MT/s DDR4.
I am waiting for server to arrive to test myself but I’d figure someone might know the answer before I find out for myself.
- Yes and no, an R630 is only able to run RDIMM and LRDIMM at 1866, 2133, and 2400 MT/s, due to the generation of processor it supports. Anything higher than 2400 MT/s will be just be stepped down to the next speed. You are better off buying the maximum supported configuration rather than buying something out of spec. 
- RAM speed support depends on the CPU. From the top of my head, the R630 doesn’t go further than 2400MT/s, neither do more than threequarter of the CPUs that can work in that machine. - You can put in DDR4-4000 if you want, but the machine will downclock it to 2400, because it can’t go much faster than that. - And why wouldn’t you want to go with ECC REG? It’s cheap, there is plenty of it and you can stuff in 3TB of it. Non-ECC can only go to 64GB I believe. 

