I'm in a bit of a panic at the moment.
I am trying to upgrade my son's PC - should be easy enough but I work away from home during the week, so only have part of the weekends to play with.
This means that if I'm missing a part or need to change anything that adds a delay of a week.
Finally got opportunity to start assembling on Sunday and found that I couldn't get the memory I purchased to run very well at all. Ideally, I would like to have spent a few days playing with it but concious that I can't do anything until next weekend I felt I had to return it quickly to be within the DSR rules.
Also, knowing I needed to find a replacement before next weekend, I looked throuh the qualified memory list for the motherboard.
The list is mostly RAM that I have heard off but don't see for sale in the UK -GSkill, AData, Elixir, Kingmax, Mushkin. And for the more available brands, the specified parts aren't readily available in the UK.
The only ones listed that could easily be obtained is Corsair Vengeance.
To be honest, I wouldn't have picked it because of the silly heat spreaders, but because I needed to order something quickly and it is on the qualified list I went ahead and placed an order.
I'm beginning to wonder whether I've done the right thing - although I have ordered, it is for collection so it's not too late to change my mind.
It's quite old. I suspect that it's SPD will be sparse. I didn't really want a silly heatsink.
But on the other hand it is qualified RAM for the MoBo.
The height of the heatsink isn't a problem now or in the near to medium future - I guess if I ever did want to fit a big heatsink then I could remove the RAM heatsinks.
Cheers,
Nigel
I am trying to upgrade my son's PC - should be easy enough but I work away from home during the week, so only have part of the weekends to play with.
This means that if I'm missing a part or need to change anything that adds a delay of a week.
Finally got opportunity to start assembling on Sunday and found that I couldn't get the memory I purchased to run very well at all. Ideally, I would like to have spent a few days playing with it but concious that I can't do anything until next weekend I felt I had to return it quickly to be within the DSR rules.
Also, knowing I needed to find a replacement before next weekend, I looked throuh the qualified memory list for the motherboard.
The list is mostly RAM that I have heard off but don't see for sale in the UK -GSkill, AData, Elixir, Kingmax, Mushkin. And for the more available brands, the specified parts aren't readily available in the UK.
The only ones listed that could easily be obtained is Corsair Vengeance.
To be honest, I wouldn't have picked it because of the silly heat spreaders, but because I needed to order something quickly and it is on the qualified list I went ahead and placed an order.
I'm beginning to wonder whether I've done the right thing - although I have ordered, it is for collection so it's not too late to change my mind.
It's quite old. I suspect that it's SPD will be sparse. I didn't really want a silly heatsink.
But on the other hand it is qualified RAM for the MoBo.
The height of the heatsink isn't a problem now or in the near to medium future - I guess if I ever did want to fit a big heatsink then I could remove the RAM heatsinks.
Cheers,
Nigel
