About to buy... board, CPU and RAM - please check.

jmp_78 · 30 Mar 2010 at 20:35

Evening guys, I'm about to order the following items to add to the existing ones in my new signature. Please don't feel the need to tell me to spend more or change my mind, I am just checking that nobody knows of any compatibility issues before I click BUY!

AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition
Asus M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 (890GX)
2x2GB OCZ Gold Edition PC3-12800

Cheers

stulid · 30 Mar 2010 at 20:37

Nice stuff.

No compatibility problems.

Vision · 30 Mar 2010 at 20:47

Good to go.

jmp_78 · 30 Mar 2010 at 20:55

Cheers!

jmp_78 · 30 Mar 2010 at 21:51

One more check - I am struggling with RAM..! I understand that this board has a MemOK! checking feature, which I assume takes many complications away, but do you think the following product would work in place of the Gold RAM in my original post?

4GB OCZ PC3-10666 Fatal1ty Edition
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_ddr3_pc3_10666_fatal1ty_edition

stulid · 30 Mar 2010 at 21:56

Think all the MemOK does is offer a built in memtest feature,

Keep your original spec.

I can't actually find much info about it, even asus website is void of info.

Looking at the custom pc review now, again nothing.

Cookeh · 30 Mar 2010 at 22:03

Agreed, original spec was great and no need to change anything

jmp_78 · 30 Mar 2010 at 22:04

The whole RAM things seems to be worrying me the most! I understand that the motherboard supports 1333MHz memory, plus higher OC's speeds. I had assumed that this meant I could buy 1600MHz memory instead (being as it's a newish board too)?

stulid · 30 Mar 2010 at 22:06

Gskill ripjaw for £99.

Or keep the Geil, there both rated upto 1600mhz

jmp_78 · 30 Mar 2010 at 22:17

stulid said:
Gskill ripjaw for £99.

You know what? Was just about to ask that very question!

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-042-GS

Look good for £100, and approved in the motherboard manual for extra piece of mind. Cheers