[ryanmartini]

Well as the title says I am buying my mobo asap. I have heard from a few people that this mobo is particularly picky on what memory it will use.


What memory is safe to use? I was going for some Micron D9 chips, so I found these Gskills:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231065

Would these be ideal for this motherboard? I hear about this motherboard being picky.

Thank You,

Nome

[Stocki]

well i dont know if the rev 1.3 is especially picky when it comes to ram
i only can say, that in my rev3 the ocz ram does a good joob(look at sig)
maybe other people owning the rev 1.3 can help you out

[ryanmartini]

Originally Posted by Stocki

well i dont know if the rev 1.3 is especially picky when it comes to ram
i only can say, that in my rev3 the ocz ram does a good joob(look at sig)
maybe other people owning the rev 1.3 can help you out

thanks for the reply. i wanted to get the rev3, but "just" the 20$ more here and there is adding up for alot of compnents. so i am trying to save a lil bit

[Burninate]

I just put my system together last night, but I don't have my e4300 quite yet, so I had to boot using an old P4 I had sitting around without a heatsink or fan, so I could only get the PC to post and then start loading windows for about 2 seconds before overheating and cutting the power (I did this intentionally to see if RAM/mobo were functional), but it DID post using this RAM:

http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16820231098

and a Gigabye DS3-P965-DS3 Rev 1.33

From what I've read, it won't go too far above DDR2-800 speeds, but the next best RAM was about $20 more, and frankly, not worth $20 more to me. Point is that it booted, and with this kind of RAM, you may not need to OC it much at all with an e4300 as the chip has a 9x multiplier and this board can do pretty high FSB from what I've read. I was in the same boat as you, though. $20 more for the next best everything adds up. I ended up buying the board and RAM from Newegg and buying the chip from Amazon.com for the free shipping and no CA sales tax. Came out to $312 for all 3 after tax and shipping. Not bad considering my old socket 939 CPU/DDR-400 RAM/mobo will come pretty close to covering the cost of upgrading. I'll do my own thread once I test everything fully.

[ryanmartini]

Originally Posted by Burninate

I just put my system together last night, but I don't have my e4300 quite yet, so I had to boot using an old P4 I had sitting around without a heatsink or fan, so I could only get the PC to post and then start loading windows for about 2 seconds before overheating and cutting the power (I did this intentionally to see if RAM/mobo were functional), but it DID post using this RAM:

http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16820231098

and a Gigabye DS3-P965-DS3 Rev 1.33

From what I've read, it won't go too far above DDR2-800 speeds, but the next best RAM was about $20 more, and frankly, not worth $20 more to me. Point is that it booted, and with this kind of RAM, you may not need to OC it much at all with an e4300 as the chip has a 9x multiplier and this board can do pretty high FSB from what I've read. I was in the same boat as you, though. $20 more for the next best everything adds up. I ended up buying the board and RAM from Newegg and buying the chip from Amazon.com for the free shipping and no CA sales tax. Came out to $312 for all 3 after tax and shipping. Not bad considering my old socket 939 CPU/DDR-400 RAM/mobo will come pretty close to covering the cost of upgrading. I'll do my own thread once I test everything fully.

yeah i might go with that since running 400 1:1 is good performance and to me its not worth the extra bones to brag about mem speeds that come on the box that should run just fine with the e4300.

good luck

[muddocktor]

Those G. Skill HZ's you linked to in your first post should work just fine in a DS3 1.3 board. I'm using some OCZ stuff that uses the same Micron D9MGH chips as these HZ sticks and they will run at 1:1 with the fsb up to the max I can get with this board, which is around 520 fsb stable. I plan to buy that exact same kit in the near future while prices are so low.