GA-X58A-UD3R: best ram?

[Toshio]

Hi, I'm about to get this board. Not many RAM options in my country, the available kits are:

Patriot Viper Series 3x2GB DDR3 12800, PVT36G1600ELK
Kingston HyperX 1600 DDR-3 CL9 3x2GB
GSKILL F312800CL7T 3x2GB DDR3 1600 CL7

Has anyone had experience with any of those? I'm planning to mild OC an i930 and do SLI.

TIA!

 

[theAnimal]

I'd choose the G.Skill out of those.

 

[RaistlinZ]

G.Skill without a doubt. Same RAM I use and I have no problem running it at 1700 @ CL7. Very good stuff.

 

[Toshio]

I've heard this particular MB is picky about RAM, anyone using G.Skill with this?

 

[Mars999]

I have this board with Corsair XMS 6GB set
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=TR3X6G1333C9

works great!

 

[Toshio]

only the kits listed in the OP are available in my country

 

[john3850]

Another vote for GSkill F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI
Ran it at 1680 7-8-7-24-1T or 210 bclk no problems.

 

[Toshio]

Another vote for GSkill F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI
Ran it at 1680 7-8-7-24-1T or 210 bclk no problems.

on X58A-UD3R or the MB in your sig?

 

[john3850]

ran it on asrock
I was told asrock had many memory problems do to being a cheap mb.
It seems when cheaper memory was used on asrocks there was a problem with the 3rd stick.
Asrock problem could be solved by trying older bios updates.
Gskill was one of the few memory sticks rated @1.5v.
Gskill ran up to 1960 with loose timing.
When I see High timming It tells me it a slower oc memory being sold.

 

[Rifter]

a buddy has that board and went through a gskill set and a OCZ set that both did not work with all 3 channels till he finally at my advice bought a corsair set that works fine. If you can find some corsair then do that, its worth the little bit of extra cash it will cost you.

 

[Toshio]

thx for the info Rifterut!

 

[john3850]

Because intel next platform is going to relace x58 in 2011 I would wait.
I only paid 266. for a mb and cpu or I would have waited.
By now the 58 platform should be solid or I would not buy it.

{Support for DDR3 2200/1333/1066/800 MHz memory modules} gigs website
DDR3 2200 could lead to uncore problems
DDR3 1066 slowish
DDR3 1333 is the only speed left to pick from

Gig site does not list support for 1600 memory on that board.
All of your memory listed is 1600 memory.

 

[Kakkoii]

Because intel next platform is going to relace x58 in 2011 I would wait.
I only paid 266. for a mb and cpu or I would have waited.
By now the 58 platform should be solid or I would not buy it.

{Support for DDR3 2200/1333/1066/800 MHz memory modules} gigs website
DDR3 2200 could lead to uncore problems
DDR3 1066 slowish
DDR3 1333 is the only speed left to pick from

Gig site does not list support for 1600 memory on that board.
All of your memory listed is 1600 memory.

It's not listed, but it still works. Most people who buy the UD3R and similar boards buy 1600 with it.

 

[Toshio]

It's not listed, but it still works. Most people who buy the UD3R and similar boards buy 1600 with it.

Yeah, AFAIK 1600 is recommended for OC so you don't run into RAM clock limitations

 

[Kriz]

I've heard this particular MB is picky about RAM, anyone using G.Skill with this?

I'm running this board with this gskill set: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231225

no memory related issues thus far. I had to set it to the advertised speed myself as the board detected it at a lower speed initially, but that was as simple as just selecting the xmp profile in the bios