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Pilgrim
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Thank you Mr. T! Okay now I understand what roach said about not needing to fill all those DIMM slots but I need someone to hold my hand lol!!  I can't tell you how much this creeps me out to only fill two of these slots. I'm going to trust his expertise and do it but I'd still like the group's blessing on what I've selected. I don't know anything about this brand, just that they seem to have good user reviews and Asrock seems to reference them a lot on numerous of their individual motherboard pages.
What do you guys think about this 1600MHz Kingston Dual-Channel Kit of two 4GB cards (8GB Memory total) which is KHX1600C9D3K2 on Asrock's approved-memory list?
Wait wait I have another important question! On Asrock's product page they have the following caveat re memory:
| Quote: | | Whether 2400/1866/1600MHz memory speed is supported depends on the CPU you adopt. If you want to adopt DDR3 2400/1866/1600 memory module on this motherboard, please refer to the memory support list on our website for the compatible memory modules. |
It's almost impossible to follow these two sentences logically, since the first conditions it on the CPU, and the second on the Memory.
Getting (anything) out of AMD's website for their older products is a nightmare and I finally just gave up trying to find a PDF on the APU I'm considering (and that Mr. T has just given his blessing to). May I just confirm before I pull the trigger on all this that I won't do this build . . . only to discover that the AMD AD3850WNZ43GX APU I've bought doesn't support the 1600MHz of these two Kingston DIMMS? Will this APU support 1600MHz? Thanks guys, I really should be able to pull this information from AMD's site grrrrr lol. |
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Mr T
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Yes, it will work with that CPU, it is if you have a lower CPU and want to use higher clock speed of RAM a compatability will arise, but all that means is your DDR3 running at 2400Mhz will clock back to 1600Mhz...
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Pilgrim
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:58 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks Mr. T. What about this brand, Kingston? Good? Bad? |
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Mr T
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I have used kingston in the past up to DDR2 and its pretty poor , especially when it comes to compatibility... But that is only my findings, if it is on the approved list it should be ok.... I much prefer Corsair at the moment as it has worked with all boards I have used. Other good (and cheap brands on the DDR3 front) are Adata, Elixir, Crucial, Geil, PQI to name some.. (I lost faith with Kingston after poor SDRAM issues and they have been much the same, I guess they make most of their revenue supplying OEMs and making SSDs/Memory sticks these days)...
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh hell . . . I'll look at some of the brands you mentioned. |
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