Memory for a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5?

AFK_Matrix · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:14

Hi,

I am wanting to upgrade the 6gb i have on my old gigabyte motherboard but am not sure what to go for.

Now I liked the look of the new Samsung 30nm kits but it seems my motherboard will support 1600MHz but One DIMM Per Channel Only which I assume means I can only put in 3 stick of it? So am I stuck with picking 1333MHz sticks?

stulid · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:20

There are triple channel 1600Mhz RAM kits here - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=8&subid=1389&sortby=priceAsc

You could add 3X2GB (6GB) along side your RAM for 12GB, or buy a new 3X4GB (12GB) kit and sell your RAM.

AFK_Matrix · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:25

Ok looks like I'll have to go with 12gb as I was hoping for 16gb but that's not a big problem. On that link is there any difference between the Kingston and Corsair 12gb kits apart from the £30 difference?

stulid · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:31

The RAM height of the Corsair Vengeance is really tall (but you are water cooled?) so wont be an issue, the timings are a smidge lower (9-9-9-27 vs 9-9-9-24) but it wont be noticeable, save the money the Kingston

AFK_Matrix · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:52

Ok thanks for that.

Just as a side question can I not run the dual channel kits then at all? Ie these ones:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=8&subid=1516

I was thinking of the 8gb kits and 2 of them to make 16gb or can I not use 4 of the 6 slots on the board like that?

stulid · 27 Mar 2012 at 23:03

You can run dual channel kits, but you lose bandwidth.

This is from your boards manual,

AFK_Matrix · 27 Mar 2012 at 23:13

As I am not too clued up with memory does that mean the 16gb dual channel will run worse than the 12gb triple channel kit?

wazza300 · 27 Mar 2012 at 23:13

you can buy three kits of the samsung and run them in tripple channel 12gb

stulid · 27 Mar 2012 at 23:34

AFK_Matrix said:
As I am not too clued up with memory does that mean the 16gb dual channel will run worse than the 12gb triple channel kit?

Read this and decide - http://www.overclock.net/t/681697/the-truth-about-i7-1366-memory-both-dual-channel-vs-tri-channel

Do you have suitable 64bit OS for these amounts of RAM?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778(v=vs.85).aspx

AFK_Matrix · 28 Mar 2012 at 00:31

Thanks for the links stulid, i'll have a read up on the first link tomorrow. And I have home premium 64bit so I can go upto 16gb, thanks for that link though as didn't know each different os had different memory limits.

AFK_Matrix · 28 Mar 2012 at 09:19

Right had a read through the link and basically there isn't any great difference between dual and triple channel. But as my board will only allow me to put 1 dim per channel of 1600MHz that means I can still only put 3 sticks in of the Samsung and get 12gb I assume? I can't put 4 sticks of the Samsung ram and get 16gb right?

In which case I might as well save some money and go for the Kingston kit.

Kotu · 4 Apr 2012 at 19:28

you can put however many sticks of ram you want (as long as they fit! so max 6 sticks) but the memory bandwidth will change depending on the order you put them in the slots (see picture above)

1 stick - single channel
2 sticks - dual channel
3 sticks - triple channel
4 sticks - still triple channel
5 sticks - single channel
6 sticks - triple channel

so you are fine using 4 sticks as long as you put them in the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 6th slots.

wazza300 · 4 Apr 2012 at 20:03

AFK_Matrix said:
Right had a read through the link and basically there isn't any great difference between dual and triple channel. But as my board will only allow me to put 1 dim per channel of 1600MHz that means I can still only put 3 sticks in of the Samsung and get 12gb I assume? I can't put 4 sticks of the Samsung ram and get 16gb right?

In which case I might as well save some money and go for the Kingston kit.

you can install four sticks of samsung =16gb and run them in dual channel mode,but for that mb tri channel is best imo so three sticks =12gb tri channel mode or four sticks=16gb dual channel mode

Kotu · 5 Apr 2012 at 00:41

wazza300 said:
you can install four sticks of samsung =16gb and run them in dual channel mode,but for that mb tri channel is best imo so three sticks =12gb tri channel mode or four sticks=16gb dual channel mode

actually some of the x58 boards still support tri channel even with 4 sticks (even says so in the picture above...)

wazza300 · 5 Apr 2012 at 00:48

are you sure? 3 sticks for tri channel anymore than that and its dual channel unless all six ram slots are filled then its back to tri channel again

tri=3 sticks or 6 sticks

dual =two or four sticks

shadow_boxer · 5 Apr 2012 at 11:28

The image posted above by stulid seems to suggest that even with four modules installed in the right slots will run in triple channel mode. Interesting. In that case op, throw in 4x4GB.

OLDPHART · 5 Apr 2012 at 19:11

Hi, a x58 ud5 does support tri-channel > 4 sticks > slot 2 /1/ 3 / 5, as in stulids picture. You can down load the manual from Gigabytes website to keep you right if you have not got one.

OLDPHART · 8 Apr 2012 at 11:35

Hi AFT, have alook in the MM Wanted section, regarding your Patriot DDR3, if you upgrade and you are going to sell it.

Cheers oldphart.