I never bother about motherboard's compatibility list and use whatever memory I can find with any motherboard, mostly Gigabyte. I never had any problems until recently.
The two instances I had trouble were both with ASUS and out of that one was with a server motherboard Z8NA-D6. I used four sticks of non-ecc 8GB (two different brands) and the machine booted and ran just fine. Out of curiosity I ran memtest86 and it reported errors in two memory locations (test#5). But repeated testing did not indicate any issue.
So my question is how important is it to have the memory in the motherboard's compatibility list? I always thought all DDR3's follow the same kind of specs.
Thanks.
The two instances I had trouble were both with ASUS and out of that one was with a server motherboard Z8NA-D6. I used four sticks of non-ecc 8GB (two different brands) and the machine booted and ran just fine. Out of curiosity I ran memtest86 and it reported errors in two memory locations (test#5). But repeated testing did not indicate any issue.
So my question is how important is it to have the memory in the motherboard's compatibility list? I always thought all DDR3's follow the same kind of specs.
Thanks.