Getting More RAM; Will my Motherboard support it?

sickness335

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Been playing a lot of high demanding games as of late and I'm in need of more memory. I've been living off of 4 gigs and I think it's road has ended. I have a Gigabyte 870A-UD3 motherboard. I've always been a fan of the G.Skill Ripjaws Series, and I found these just now: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB)

Will this support my motherboard? Thanks for your time!
 
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Unless there are specific compatibility issues between a given motherboard or CPU and DIMMs or the motherboard is an OEM model with vendor lock-in in its BIOS, just about any no-frills memory from the correct technology generation will work

Check your motherboard and DIMMs' QVLs if you want to minimize your likelihood of ending up with one of relatively few combinations that do not work.

InvalidError

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Unless there are specific compatibility issues between a given motherboard or CPU and DIMMs or the motherboard is an OEM model with vendor lock-in in its BIOS, just about any no-frills memory from the correct technology generation will work

Check your motherboard and DIMMs' QVLs if you want to minimize your likelihood of ending up with one of relatively few combinations that do not work.
 
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sickness335

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Sounds great. Thank you both for the information. I was just looking at G.Skill's website just for kicks and I came across this Trident X. Based off what InvalidError said, I can assume if I purchased this: G.SKILL Trident X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) it will be compatible too? Thanks again

Got me thinking... I have a pair of these in my MB right now: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) I happen to find this exact pair on Newegg. Should I just buy another set, rather than getting rid of the ones I have currently? It'll obviously cost less, but how big of a difference is this compared to that TridentX?
 

Tradesman1

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You can try adding, there's no guarantees that two sets, even the exact same model will play nice together, there's an extremely good chance that you can take 10 sticks right off an assembly line and may be lucky to find 4 out of the 10 that all play together, that's why they offer such an assortment of number of sticks, they test to ensure all in a set will play....if it was as easy to mix DRAM as many would have you think, the manufacturers would simply sell single sticks and have a better profit margin from them