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I am getting an AMD FX-6300 and a gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P (rev. 1.0) motherboard. I was wanting to find out if the motherboard and processor would work together out of the box without a bios update? On the gigabyte webiste, the cpu support list says for the amd fx-6300: since BIOS Version F1. Also another question, will this cpu and motherboard work well with one stick of Patriot Signature 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3 (240-Pin SDRAM) DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600). I can only afford 1 stick right now, and plan on getting a second stick in another week for a total of 8GB. Would 16GB make a big difference on this build using windows 7 home premium 64-bit? Thanks in advnace for answering
 
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One stick of 4GB will be more than enough to do day to day tasks, even gaming. I'm running a 4GB stick with my 3570k and GTX 760 and i game in 1080p with ultra settings. Ram doesn't effect speeds very much unless you go below 4, then it gets rocky.

If you use onboard Video DDR3 1600 becomes a little bit better than DDR3 1333 in performance, but using a seperate graphics card, performance isn't noticeably effected at all.
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Hi there

The CPU and motherboard are compatible, looking at the downloads section, there has only been one BIOS version, which is F1.

The memory support list shows that they support some Patriot RAM modules. The Signature is not listed, but that would be because if they listed every single compatible RAM module, the list would go on for pages and pages. Gigabyte say themselves "Memory modules listed below are for reference only. Due to massive memory models on the market, we can only verify some of them". They also wouldn't have the time to test all of them.

I wouldn't purchase the stick of RAM you have listed however, I think you should go for at least DDR3 1600MHz or preferably 1866MHz if you want to overclock.

Also, having 16Gb compared to 8Gb of RAM will not make a huge difference, unless you're regularly using over 6Gb of RAM, in which case 16Gb might be helpful.

Hope this helps :)
 
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The big thing for me on buying ram right now is price. Starting out would 1 stick of 4gb ram be sufficient. And if I don't overclock would I notice much difference between 1333 MHz and 1600 MHz ram?
 
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One stick of 4GB will be more than enough to do day to day tasks, even gaming. I'm running a 4GB stick with my 3570k and GTX 760 and i game in 1080p with ultra settings. Ram doesn't effect speeds very much unless you go below 4, then it gets rocky.

If you use onboard Video DDR3 1600 becomes a little bit better than DDR3 1333 in performance, but using a seperate graphics card, performance isn't noticeably effected at all.
 
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If you are going to start out with 4Gb and upgrade to 8Gb, I would suggest by a 1x4Gb stick now and a 1x4Gb stick later (same model). The reason why I suggested 1600MHz is that there is very little price difference between the two, however I do agree with Nitro that without overclocking the difference is small.
 
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Would a stick of this ram be better? Kingston HyperX Genesis - Memory - 4 GB - DIMM 240-pin - DDR3 - 1600 MHz / PC3-12800 - CL9 - 1.65 V - unbuffered - non-ECC
 
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