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hentaiboi_   03-11-2009 at 02:00:20 AM

is it bad to go to the memory limit of your mobo? what i mean is your board has a memory limit of 8GB and you put 8gb on it

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Proximon   03-11-2009 at 03:11:49 AM
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BAD? No, but it might be hard to do, and require some extra tweaking.

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hentaiboi_   03-11-2009 at 03:11:36 PM
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i visited some forums about going 8GB on nforce 790i mobos and they said when using OCZ NVIDIA SLI edition memory they are having some problems like no POST and system freezes.

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Proximon   03-11-2009 at 08:29:29 PM
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Well, Nvidia chipsets have problems. I would never buy "SLI edition" RAM. That's just criminal marketing. RAM is just RAM, and has nothing to do with your ability to run video cards in SLI.

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Zenthar   03-11-2009 at 08:41:18 PM
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The thing is when you buy a memory kit with a specific speed/timing/voltage, it's for that kit alone, if you use 2 or more kits, you might have to play with the settings to have them stable.

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hentaiboi_   03-12-2009 at 05:08:06 AM
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so its better to have an intel based chipset and using XMP enabled memory like Corsair Dominator.

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Proximon   03-12-2009 at 08:51:42 AM
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If you really want to be safe just get a good 8GB kit:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231195

That's some good stuff there, lotsa overclocking room, low voltage.

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Ancient_1   03-12-2009 at 09:38:02 PM
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Proximon wrote :

If you really want to be safe just get a good 8GB kit:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231195

That's some good stuff there, lotsa overclocking room, low voltage.


That mem won't work if he has a 790i chipset since the 790 is a ddr3 chipset. 780i was ddr2.

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Proximon   03-13-2009 at 11:03:17 AM
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Doh. I actually don't know how that chipset handles it's DDR3. It possible it's not an issue at all.

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