NITRO Posted August 18, 2010 Member ID: 1095 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 34 Topic Count: 101 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3639 Content Per Day: 0.65 Reputation: 2460 Achievement Points: 24702 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 02/06/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 03/23/1979 Device: iPhone Posted August 18, 2010 Hi guyz n girlz well im currently buying parts for a new pc, my laptop is just bout fragged to death and im sick of medium settings and poor colour etc. First of all the mobo is a MSI 890FXA-GD70 AM3 socket. On the mobo's specs it says this for the ram : Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 800/1066/1333/1600*/1800*/2133* (OC*) DRAM, 16GB Max. Ok so originaly i was going to put some 1600mhz ddr3 in there, but the way i read these RAM specs tells me that the max i can put in is 1333mhz and then i have to overclock it to get 1600mhz then 1800mhz etc etc. Is this correct the way im reading this? Or can i put 1600mhz strait in? Any help appreciated as its doing my head in. I dont care bout having to OC it to 1600 but if i can just put in some that is already 1600 then that would be sweet too. Thanks team!!! Awards
Labob Posted August 18, 2010 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8389 Content Per Day: 1.47 Reputation: 6126 Achievement Points: 54468 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 22 Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Posted August 18, 2010 DA max is 1333 on dat board still ton fast and 8 gig is plenty to play with. Awards
NITRO Posted August 19, 2010 Member ID: 1095 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 34 Topic Count: 101 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3639 Content Per Day: 0.65 Reputation: 2460 Achievement Points: 24702 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 02/06/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 03/23/1979 Device: iPhone Author Posted August 19, 2010 Thanks Labob! after much research on AMD systems and my mobo since this post, i have decided on 8gig 1600mhz dual channel of which i will drop the freq back too 1333 and relax the timings so that when i oc the system i have a bit more head room on the mem to work with. Hopefully my cpu's mem controller lets me get a good oc on factory max 1333mhz or i will have shelled out the extra moolah on the 1600 for nothing! LOL. Thanks! Awards
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