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: 0.70 Reputation: 2460 Achievement Points: 24702 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 02/06/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 24 Birthday: 03/23/1979 Device: Android Share 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!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Labob Posted August 18, 2010 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8265 Content Per Day: 1.54 Reputation: 5977 Achievement Points: 53619 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 22 minutes ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted August 18, 2010 DA max is 1333 on dat board still ton fast and 8 gig is plenty to play with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... 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: 0.70 Reputation: 2460 Achievement Points: 24702 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 02/06/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 24 Birthday: 03/23/1979 Device: Android Author Share 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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