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Hello, I'm looking to get an upgrade on my current RAM, I currently have four gigabytes, and I'm looking to upgrade to eight to twelve gigabytes of RAM, preferably twelve.
My motherboard is an ASUS P6T Workstation Professional: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6T_WS_Professional/

I've looked in the QVL of my manual, and I can't seem to find any kits of three, to make total of twelve gigabytes. (I say at least twelve because I'd like more than eight for future-proofing my build, and I'd like to take advantage of my motherboard's triple-channel support)
Thank you in advance for your help.
 
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It's difficult to be 100% sure when dealing with an older system, but yes, I am as sure as one can be and that's pretty sure. I'll put it this way, if I was in your situation with an X58 and wanted to upgrade to 12GB without overclocking, I would buy that kit.

Whether they're used to the best of their potential is not something that is easy to quantify. Some software won't care much if it's DDR3-1066 or DDR3 2400 or anywhere between, but some software does show considerable improvements as you go up i bandwidth and/or go down in latency. For example, most modern games aren't very sensitive to memory performance. Compression/decompression software (WinRAR, 7Zip, etc.) usually likes high memory bandwidth. Folding@home likes low memory...
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More particularly, I'm just looking for a little bit of help on how I can find a kit of three that would work well with my motherboard, and maybe some recommendations if anyone has some.
Again thank you.
 
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I was actually going to link that one in particular, as it seemed to be the one I would most likely be able to buy.
No, I don't really plan on overclocking, I don't think that would be necessary. As of currently, I'm not playing intensive games or using too many intensive programs. Though that's just for now, I'm working on getting my machine to a good point where I wouldn't need to upgrade too much in the future.
So you're sure those are compatible with my motherboard, and will be used to the best of their potential?
 
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It's difficult to be 100% sure when dealing with an older system, but yes, I am as sure as one can be and that's pretty sure. I'll put it this way, if I was in your situation with an X58 and wanted to upgrade to 12GB without overclocking, I would buy that kit.

Whether they're used to the best of their potential is not something that is easy to quantify. Some software won't care much if it's DDR3-1066 or DDR3 2400 or anywhere between, but some software does show considerable improvements as you go up i bandwidth and/or go down in latency. For example, most modern games aren't very sensitive to memory performance. Compression/decompression software (WinRAR, 7Zip, etc.) usually likes high memory bandwidth. Folding@home likes low memory latency.

Suffice to say that DDR3-1333 CAS9 should be good. DDR3-1600 or DDR3-1866 with CAS no more than 11 would be a little better, but they'd be out of stock specifications for your system and may need manual tuning in the BIOS to get working.
 
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Alright, thank you very much for all the help, I'll definitely be putting money towards this.
 
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