So I am helping a friend out, who has an old Alienware computer. It's the Aurora R2 using the RV30W motherboard. We recently replaced his graphics card with no issue to an MSI gtx 970, but having trouble figuring out what RAM is going to be compatible here. I gave him some old ram I had 2 4gb sticks (PGV38G1333ELK) but I could only get them to work by themselves, they would not work with the old ram in the other slots (it came with 2 sticks of 2gb, and 2 sticks of 1gb for total of 6gb when originally bought). I know nothing about the old sticks, they aren't labeled well and I can't seem to find a google answer. Now I do know that the RV30W has a max of 16gb ram capacity, so can anyone point me in the direction of 2 more 4gb sticks that will work with the 2 I already installed?
Upgrading ram on the RV30W motherboard
- Thread starter Lucky2u
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- Oct 7, 2009
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The route to accomplish mixing and matching your rams is bad practice. You should remove all rams from your board and populate them using a quad channel kit i.e 4x4GB if you'd like to max the ram out to 16GB's. The prerequisite to that endeavor though is that you should make sure the motherboard's BIOS is up to date.
According to your motherboard's specs the maximum ram frequency supported by the board is DDR3 1333MHz and your platform is based off the LGA 1155 processor package which has the Sandy Bridge processors as well as the Ivy Bridge processors. This means that the maximum ram frequency you can achieve theoretically is 1600MHz. I say theoretically since the BIOS may or may not limit you.
Please pass on a budget so as to hunt a kit for you. You should be prepared to take back your Patriot kit as mixing and matching ram kits will only add to instability and in most cases a system that doesn't boot or doesn't like to boot properly.
According to your motherboard's specs the maximum ram frequency supported by the board is DDR3 1333MHz and your platform is based off the LGA 1155 processor package which has the Sandy Bridge processors as well as the Ivy Bridge processors. This means that the maximum ram frequency you can achieve theoretically is 1600MHz. I say theoretically since the BIOS may or may not limit you.
Please pass on a budget so as to hunt a kit for you. You should be prepared to take back your Patriot kit as mixing and matching ram kits will only add to instability and in most cases a system that doesn't boot or doesn't like to boot properly.
G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-1333C9Q-16GAO
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231543
Nothing has been tested with your existing RAM. Adding two more sticks is not guaranteed to work.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231543
Nothing has been tested with your existing RAM. Adding two more sticks is not guaranteed to work.
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