RAM advice

[Jimboy121]

Hi there guys, Quick question...

This RAM:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb(...ce=google+shopping&utm_medium=google+shopping

it says, "Corsair’s mainstream memory solution for the AMD Phenom II or Intel Core i3, i5 and Core i7 dual channel memory processors and platform. The XMS3 family is Corsair’s mainstream line of performance DDR3 memory. These modules allow users to experience outstanding memory performance and stability. Available in Corsair’s new XMS heat spreaders, each module is built using carefully selected RAMs."

I'm using a Core 2 duo processor as i'm a cheap scate, would I experence any problems with using this ram, does it have to be the processors mentioned above or is that more of a surgestion?

Edit: Basicly i'm looking to upgrade from 4gb to 8gbs with 1333 Mhz speed RAM, 2x 4g sticks, if anyone else knows of anything better than please let me know.

Thanks

Jimboy121

 

[burke67]

Jimboy,

Gather your motherboard manufacturer name and model # and visit:

hXXp://www.corsair.com/learn_n_explore/

The memory finder tool will provide you with Corsair's solutions for your M/B... hopefully the XMS3's are in the results.

Best of luck,

Burke

 

[Jimboy121]

Funny enough my motherboard is not listed with them, here it is on ebay. looked threw the asus motherboards and mines not on the list unfortunally.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ASUS-P5G41C-M...4?pt=UK_Motherboards_CPUs&hash=item2a0f05b3a8

 

[burke67]

Surprising that Corsair has no records for your model!

Kingston does:

hXXp://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator_new/modelsinfo.asp?SysID=66341&mfr=ASUS%2FASmobile&model=P5G41C&search_type=&root=us&LinkBack=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kingston.com&Sys=66341-ASUS%2FASmobile-P5G41C-M+LX+Motherboard&distributor=0&submit1=Search

Comparing the Kingston results with your original ebay link; it would appear you'd be OK with that purchase.

An observation: The Motherboard is dual-channel capable... this would be a performance boon if you installed 2x4GB rather than 1X8GB

Next observation: Is your processor 64-bit capable; and are you running a 64-bit OS? ... if not, you OS will only address 4GB of the 8GB you are installing.

It's never simple, is it!?

Cheers,

Burke

 

[Jimboy121]

Its ok i'm using a 64 bit processor and opperating system, I've ordered some now. Thanks for your help, kingston don't half rip you off from there web site, I just copy and pasted the product code into ebuyer and got it 3x cheaper.

 

[Jimboy121]

Got the RAM today, was working fine for 15 mins then blue screen, did some testing and it turns out one of the modules are faulty, back in the post, only had 8GB's of ram for 3 hours lol, they will replace it. funny thing is i'm replacing my dominator RAM 4g with kingston ram, they are 3x smaller and look rubbish in a gamming PC.

Can you get heat spreaders for ram which which is very small lol. : /

 

[burke67]

JB121,

Drat! Sucks that there was an NFG part! So close!

I've seen individual RAM chip heat sinks (thermal glue-on sort) before. Heat spreaders would be better I think... I'm sure google and ebay would suss that for you.

I'd take the performance gain over looks myself!

Hope you're sorted soon!

Burke