Originally posted by: ChicagoPCGuy
Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Originally posted by: shrimpsiumai
Can someone sugggest some memory to go along with this? I really don't know where to start (OCZ? Patriot? Corsair?) and any suggestions would help.
Thanks for your suggestion.
Yea I'd second that, I'd like to know what memory to buy for this, I was leaning towards from Patriot specifically this ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220006
Well, for the EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra I typically use two brands of RAM in my builds after some interesting problems in the past. I use either OCZ (I recommend the Gold (not VX) or Platinum Rev2) or G.Skill low latency Winbond based chip one (2x512MB for $145 at NewEgg). Any of these choices work well with this motherboard because I have about six builds out there (including my own) using one of these brands/types.
One thing--forget about overclocking with that Winbond based G.Skill because the vDIMM on the EPoX only goes to 3.1v, and in order to overclock with that RAM you really need about 3.2 to 3.6 on vDIMM. At 2.8v, it is rock solid 2-2-2-7 at 200Mhz, though. Same goes for the OCZ stuff, but with the Plat Rev2 you can get about 240Mhz pretty easily with slightly loosened timings. Loosening the timings on the G.Skill does NOTHING. It does not respond to loosened timings like Samsung based TCC5/D.
Edited to say that I have used Patriot in the past and have found them to be not exactly what they are cracked up to be. I had stick fail on me about four months into system operation, and then another set of the expensive XBLK that refused to run at rated timings. Not a good track record in my book.