- Jan 20, 2011
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In my old desktop I currently have 6 GB in total divided as 3x2 GB DIMMs ("Corsair Dominator DHX+ DDR3 1600 MHz"). It supports 24 GB according to the manual. But exactly how should I got about getting 12? Can I simply add another 3x2 GB (with the same CAS latency) to get 12 in total?
The following is stated in the motherboard manual:
"Due to Intel spec definition, X.M.P. DIMMs and DDR3-1600 are supported for one DIMM per channel only"
My existing DIMMs are DDR3-1600, so if I understand this correctly it means I cannot add more DIMMs of the same type. Will it work with slower memory? I'm assuming in that case that all memory will run at the slow speed.
An alternative would be to use 3x4 GB DIMMs, but does it support this? None of the listed qualified vendor list configurations state any DIMMs that are that big (this is an old motherboard).
Doing some google searches seem to find people complaining about this exact issue, that they only get 8, 10, or that it doesn't work at all.
In short, I'd like some reliable way of getting 12 GB of memory, ideally by keeping the memory that I have, ideally by maintaining high performance.
The following is stated in the motherboard manual:
"Due to Intel spec definition, X.M.P. DIMMs and DDR3-1600 are supported for one DIMM per channel only"
My existing DIMMs are DDR3-1600, so if I understand this correctly it means I cannot add more DIMMs of the same type. Will it work with slower memory? I'm assuming in that case that all memory will run at the slow speed.
An alternative would be to use 3x4 GB DIMMs, but does it support this? None of the listed qualified vendor list configurations state any DIMMs that are that big (this is an old motherboard).
Doing some google searches seem to find people complaining about this exact issue, that they only get 8, 10, or that it doesn't work at all.
In short, I'd like some reliable way of getting 12 GB of memory, ideally by keeping the memory that I have, ideally by maintaining high performance.
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