- May 4, 2013
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After a couple of years with 6GB, I've been noticing that I'm occasionally running quite close to that at times and thought, memory being so cheap, that now might be a reasonable time to upgrade it. My current thought is to get a 12GB kit, but, after spending all day reading up to try to figure out what frequency I should get, I still feel relatively lost.
To reiterate the details, the motherboard is an X58-UD3R (revision 2.0) and the processor is an i7 930 at 2.80 GHz.
I don't typically have the time needed to deal with overclocking anything, so it's all running at whatever the BIOS's default/auto settings are, with the current memory set to the XMP profile (Which is I think the right thing to be doing, assuming I don't want to fiddle with settings any more than I strictly need to. If not, I would love to know that too.).
As an addendum, I've had some weird issues with the current three sticks. I've run extensive tests on each one, one at a time in the first slot and in the slots they usually sit in with no problems, but I've had routine weirdness on cold boots with crashes and windows losing track of some of the memory. After a few false starts, the problems normally go away, and I rarely turn off the PC, so it's not a huge issue, but if anyone happens to know how to avoid that, I'd love to know - I've seen some vague talk of problems with certain memory sticks and this motherboard before, but that's it.
To reiterate the details, the motherboard is an X58-UD3R (revision 2.0) and the processor is an i7 930 at 2.80 GHz.
I don't typically have the time needed to deal with overclocking anything, so it's all running at whatever the BIOS's default/auto settings are, with the current memory set to the XMP profile (Which is I think the right thing to be doing, assuming I don't want to fiddle with settings any more than I strictly need to. If not, I would love to know that too.).
As an addendum, I've had some weird issues with the current three sticks. I've run extensive tests on each one, one at a time in the first slot and in the slots they usually sit in with no problems, but I've had routine weirdness on cold boots with crashes and windows losing track of some of the memory. After a few false starts, the problems normally go away, and I rarely turn off the PC, so it's not a huge issue, but if anyone happens to know how to avoid that, I'd love to know - I've seen some vague talk of problems with certain memory sticks and this motherboard before, but that's it.
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