Anyone using p67/z68 ram on an X58?

Basically it seems they use the same ram, just newer versions with less voltage. (but most kits are overclockable to the x58's natural voltage range). (I have an MSI platinum sli x58 motherboard, and i7 920 @ 4ghz)

So when these kits say it's for p67/z68, it should work on an x58 board? My board is capable of 4 dimm triple channel setup.


Here's the kits I'm looking at.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231478

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231429

Even though they are rated for a different setup, these should work on an x58 right?

Anyone else using any of this 'newer tech' (yet the same except for voltage) on an x58 board?

Yes, they will work. But as you noted x58 is triple channel. Only run 3 sticks.

What board do you have? I've not heard of a x58 board with 4 slots, but I could have just been glossing over this... 4 Slots doesn't make sense to me.

TiZakit said:

Yes, they will work. But as you noted x58 is triple channel. Only run 3 sticks.

What board do you have? I've not heard of a x58 board with 4 slots, but I could have just been glossing over this... 4 Slots doesn't make sense to me.

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It has 6 slots. My motherboard supports triple channel with 3, 4, 5, or 6 sticks. I also have win 7 home premium, which also means even if I wanted more ram than 16gb, it wouldn't recognize it. This will be my last ram upgrade and should last me for 2-4 years. (which is why I don't want to settle for 12gb). Especially when I'm usually at 70-95 percent utilization (71 percent right now) with 6gb. Just seems to make sense to do 16gb instead of 12gb/24gb for the above reasons.

MSI Platinum SLI X58.

Nice. I didn't know that was possible. I had to pull up your motherboard manual to verify even.

Yup, the listed pack o' ram will work. Ram is not defined to motherboard architecture. A DDR3 DIMM is a DDR3 DIMM. Only differences are in speed and ECC.

Cool, thanks.

Now I'm just wondering should I get the 1.35v or the 1.5v version. I plan on trying to get it up to 1900mhz, with perhaps slightly tighter timings. I've read the 1.5v version can hit 2133mhz, but not much is known about the 1.35v version.

Although on new egg someone put for the 1.35v version.

"Replaced 2x4 GB 1600 with this 4x4 G.Skill kit. Product instantly booted on my P8P67 Deluxe motherboard. I had to manually set the timings and voltage which is expected, though XMP was available. Stable for 3 runs of memtest86+, overnight P95, 20 runs of max LinX (updated linpack files) at stock clocks. They score a 7.9 in the WEI if that matters to you. Stock AIDA64 benchmarks result in

Read 18751 MB/s
Write 19258 MB/s
Copy 20705 MB/s
Latency 45.7 ns

As for overclock, I was able to push the timings to 8-8-8-24 CR1 at 1.50v on my 4.5GHz overclock. At 1.35v I can maintain timings but push to 1866. I feel the stock timings volts are more than adequate, but if you are interested the same timings at 1866 results in:

Read 22556 MB/s
Write 23850 MB/s
Copy 24911 MB/s
Latency 41.2 ns"