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March 10, 2013 9:39:40 AM

Hello.
I need help about RAM compatibility for the AMD FX 6300.
Is PC3-15000 1866Mhz RAM compatible with the AMD FX 6300 and if not what is compatible ?

Thanks for answering. (If you do answer)

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March 10, 2013 10:02:39 AM

you have the wrong info here, is it ddr3?
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March 10, 2013 10:06:06 AM

qw2100 said:
Hello.
I need help about RAM compatibility for the AMD FX 6300.
Is PC3-15000 1866Mhz RAM compatible with the AMD FX 6300 and if not what is compatible ?

Thanks for answering. (If you do answer)


Meaning the 1866s I presume. What you need to worry about is whether the RAM is compatible with your motherboard. What is your motherboard?
And yes, the 6300 supports 1866.
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March 10, 2013 10:07:13 AM

Give us a link to the exact kit your thinking of buying but PC3 is DDR3 so yes should be fine.
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March 10, 2013 10:30:34 AM

I am using the Ripjaws X series 2133Mhz ram in a Asrock 990FX Extreme4.
They are running at 2133Mhz in this board as well.
I hope that helps any.

jer :) 
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March 10, 2013 4:50:21 PM

The MOBO I will be using will be the Asus M5A97 R2.0 which is compatible with 1866.
So thanks to everyone for helping me out :)  .
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June 19, 2013 2:33:19 AM

geraldfryjr said:
I am using the Ripjaws X series 2133Mhz ram in a Asrock 990FX Extreme4.
They are running at 2133Mhz in this board as well.
I hope that helps any.

jer :) 

Hey, so you have the amd fx-6300 too? and it runs the 2133mhz rams just fine?
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June 19, 2013 6:49:31 AM

Yes, it does I am using an Asrock 990FX Extreme 4 motherboard.
For every day use I have the CPU overclocked at 4.8ghz and runs great!
I don't game with it so it never sees a heavy load and I have had it up to 5.0ghz before but I only have an aircooler on it so the heat builds up rather quickly at those setting.
All with the ram running at 2133Mhz.

jer :) 

P.S. I am using a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus with two fans on it.
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September 3, 2013 2:15:16 PM

geraldfryjr said:
Yes, it does I am using an Asrock 990FX Extreme 4 motherboard.
For every day use I have the CPU overclocked at 4.8ghz and runs great!
I don't game with it so it never sees a heavy load and I have had it up to 5.0ghz before but I only have an aircooler on it so the heat builds up rather quickly at those setting.
All with the ram running at 2133Mhz.

jer :) 

P.S. I am using a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus with two fans on it.


I've got the FX-6300 with Gskill RipjawsX F3-2133C9D-16GXH RAM in the ASUS M5A99FX PRO 2.0 cooled by the CM hyper 212 evo with 2 fans. 4.4ghz is as high as I can get it while maintaining stability in prime95. Is this the same ram you have? If so maybe you can go into more detail on your OC?
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September 30, 2013 2:06:31 AM

The Gskill ram I am using are the 4Gb sticks, F3-17000CL11D-8GBXL.
Newegg Item Number-N82E16820231468.

jer :) 
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February 3, 2014 12:54:52 AM

qw2100 said:
Hello.
I need help about RAM compatibility for the AMD FX 6300.
Is PC3-15000 1866Mhz RAM compatible with the AMD FX 6300 and if not what is compatible ?

Thanks for answering. (If you do answer)


Dear,

I also got a FX 6300 with a Asus Crosshair V formula-Z mainboard. I used 8GB Gskill ripjawz from 2133Mhz. But i had to clock the memory speed back to 1866Mhz because the system is getting unstable when you use 2133Mhz with a FX6300. AMD FX-6300 only supports to 1866Mhz. It is possible to set the memory speed to 2133Mhz but when you run a stability test it will eventuelly fail and the games will also crash after a time. It running optimal with 1866Mhz settings

Hopefully this is informative enough

With kind regards,

Dave Koster

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February 13, 2014 11:52:35 PM

Interesting,
Lately I have been running mine with stock settings and stock voltage settings rather than having it overclocked at 4.8Ghz and it is still running solid with the ram at 2133Mhz.

The only issue I have had with this Asrock board is that the IDE interface is flakey to get it to work as a common boot drive.
You have to set the jumpers of both the DVD and the hard drive to CS in order to get it to boot and install the OS.
Nowhere in any manual or onlline did I find this info.
It was all from a weeks worth of trial and error until I got it to work correctly.

And even then it was really flakey and being a PIA trying to get XP64 installed.

Once I got everything installed on the PATA 500GB it just was fine booting off of C: via IDE and I also had Win7 on another partition.
Until one day I bump the drive or something and lost the boot track.

But it worked long enough for me to back up all of the data on my 1TB drive to my 2TB for safe keeping and re-format it.

I now have XP64 and Win7 dual booting on the SATA drive.
Once I decide which version of Linux I want to use for a while I will put that on it as well.

Meanwhile Booting Linux via 8GB USB3 thumbdrive works great and is very fast too.

Before, I just had Win7 and UE3.5 Linux running on it without any issues overclocked and with the ram at 2133Mhz the whole time for about a year.

You can however try bumping up the NB voltage a bit as this can be a bit touchy.
There was one of those voltages (NB I am pretty sure) that once I got it stable at 4.8ghz I could not move it at all.
Not even one point to try and drop it some (because it raises the CPU heat) or else it would crash the system including the OS and I would have to reload it.
I did that a couple of times and then I just left it and it ran fine for a year.
Then I decide to switch to a newer version of UE linux and re did everything as I wanted XP64 as well.

FWIW

jer :) 
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February 14, 2014 12:17:04 AM

I would post my OC settings for you but I lost them all when I updated the BIOS thinking that it was the cause of the IDE interface being wonky.

It will take me some time to figure them out again as you know how that goes.....Change, boot, test, fail and repeat!! ;) 

It may have been part of the issue but it was discovering the very odd drive jumper settings that finally got it to work.

Thats the new UEFI thing for ya, and, I think it is BS!!

jer :) 
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February 14, 2014 12:24:30 AM

Dear,

It also worked with the 2133Mhz ram setting but the amd overdrive stability test was still failing

So that's the reason i clocked the memory back to 1866Mhz after that the Amd overdrive stability test went fine.

Oh by the way the CPU is overclocked to 4.1 Ghz. I don't want to push the CPU to far because i am a gamer and i will use that CPU power

Kind regards,

Dave
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May 24, 2014 7:43:21 AM

You should always overclock from the bios.
The AMD utility doesn't do a very good job at it.
You can use it to find a good baseline and go from there.
Slowly raising the cpu voltage and some times the northbridge just a little bit.
Go one step at a time and test.
It is a very tedious process as they can be a bit Finicky and some times it will lock up solid and you will have to reset everything and start over.
Take your time and you will get there.
Make sure you have turned of all of the Turbo stuff and have a solid non changing clock speed else you won't get much past 4.1 Ghz with this CPU.

Good Luck!!!

jer :) 
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July 6, 2014 5:37:31 AM

I found a pair of 2x4 gb runing at 2400mhz with 10euro more than a 1600mhz. Would they be worth? They are the hiperx beast series.
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August 12, 2014 9:03:32 PM

Faster is always better, especially if it doesn't cost a lot more !!

jer :) 
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October 7, 2014 1:37:07 PM

No faster is not always better, latency is important to consider. If it is faster and still has the same latency as a lower frequency then yes it is (in theory) better. Like the F3-2133C9D-8GXL. 2133 MHz frequency at CAS 9 (which is average for most RAM) and a good price too. However you also need to know what your motherboard can support and I found this thread doing my own research for mine. A good calculation when comparing latency vs frequency is take the latency / frequency * 1000. Take this figure for each type of RAM you are looking at and compare, the smaller the number the better.
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