Crucial memory with Gigabyte Motherboard

[tolakos100]

Hello everybody...

This is my fisrt post as i just joined the forum.

I have the Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R motherboard and i want to buy new ram for it. I wanted to buy the Crucial DDR2-800 PC6400 5-5-5-15 1.8v which was the max it out recomendation on crucial's site. Then i saw the crucial ballistix series DDR2-800 PC6400 4-4-4-12 2.0v. I looked into mobo's manual and saw that it supports 1.8v.

If i buy the Ballistix i have stability problems? I didn't see any 2.0v. support in mobos manual, this means that only in 1.8v can i use memory?

If i make the apropriate settings (which i don't know yet) in Bios it will do?

Now i have 2gb Kingston DDr2-PC5300 5-5-5-15 1.8v. The timings taken from cpu-z and is the default settings.


Sorry for the many questions and

Thanks in advance...

 

[GhislainG]

If you really want to use 4-4-4-12 timings, why not buy memory that can do it at 1.8V?

 

[tolakos100]

Any recomendations? Because all the RAM with these timings i see working in 2.0 or 2.1vs. And my other question is it will be supported (the 4-4-4-12) from my mobo? or it will run in 5-5-5-15 and i have to o/c it to go to that timings!

Thanks...

 

[GhislainG]

Here are a couple that meet the requirements:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231219 - 1.8-1.9V

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144120 - 1.9-2.0V

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144120 - 2.0-2.1V, but they will probably run at 1.8V (I do it and others do it as well - read the reviews). I have 4 x 2GB of those running at 4-4-4-12 and 1.8V in a GA-EP45-UD3P.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231209 - 1.8-1.9V (these are better than the kit above and they also run at 1.8V without any issue).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146726 - 2.0-2.1V, but very good memory.

I prefer the G.Skill PI Black (my Gigabyte motherboard automatically selected the EPP settings) , but you can't go wrong with any of these kits.

 

[tolakos100]

Thanks for the valueble infos,

If it's not to difficult, can you please give a clou about "but they will probably run at 1.8V (I do it and others do it as well - read the reviews)" the reviews you mention?

I read many posts prior to mine but i didn't find any report on this thing.

If you remember any post or something to start to look for, it would be nice.

Thank you very much again...

 

[GhislainG]

Sorry, I pasted the same link twice. This is the ram that I was referring to: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231148

You should read the reviews on Newegg.com.

 

[tolakos100]

Now i got it! (for the revies on newegg)

Yes it's all really good Rams. I did a quick search in the store which i usually buy hardware components and the most models that i saw had different product codes and higher prices.

Any way i have a start point now.

Thanks and be well my friend...