GA-P35-DS3L memory question

[rufio45]

Hello, quick question here.

I'm building my new computer and I read a lot and chose something like
mobo - GA-P35-DS3L
cpu - E6750
(already have a 8800GT)
and so on and I want to get at least 2 gigs of 800 mhz ram,
I checked on the stores down here in mexico and the only "good" stuff i found was
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 (2 gig deal)
and
Kingston KVR800D2N5/1G

I looked up the memory thing on giga-byte's website and it seems that the mobo accepts the Kingston memory, but the corsair one it says the same part number except it ends with a CA, which is the 4-4-4-12 memory and the one i can get is the 5-5-5-12. I dont even know what this numbers mean and i really wanted to get corsair instead of kingston, will the memory work even tho it's not 4-4-4-12 or should i just pick up the Kingston to be safe?

 

[Daves255]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/55024-30-memory-please-read-posting

It's all in that.


EDIT: Bah, I'm too nice. 4-4-4-12 memory is faster, so slower memory should not be problematic (5-5-5-12 are looser timings).

 

[g-paw]

Go to the Corsair site and there should be a place you can enter you're mobo mfg and model and it will tell you what RAM is compatible, at least Crusciel and Kingston sites lets you do this. Agree with Dave255, the slower RAM should work.

 

[boner]

hey you can actually put a 8800GT on a GA-P35-DS3L??? and it does not has a PCIe 2.0 port

 

[nukemaster]

PCI-E 2.0 is backward compatible. just like USB 2.0 works on 1.1 ports

 

[San Pedro]

Video cards have not exceeded the bandwidth of PCI-E 1 yet. So, thankfully they made the cards backward compatible.

 

[neoxblu1]

your motherboard can support corsair the numbers your talking about (4-4-4-12 ) is the latency rate, the higher the better for you.

for example i have corsair dominator 2GB 1800 and hits latency rate is
(9-9-9-25)

 

[Zorg]

your motherboard can support corsair the numbers your talking about (4-4-4-12 ) is the latency rate, the higher the better for you.

for example i have corsair dominator 2GB 1800 and hits latency rate is
(9-9-9-25)

The lower the better. As the RAM gets faster it needs to have looser timings (higher numbers).

Edit: Here try this Understanding RAM Timings

 

[tlmck]

That board supports both the Corsair and Kingston quite well. It also works with OCZ Platinum Rev. 2.0.