Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R (UD5 or UD7) with 12GB RAM?

JamesU2005 · 17 May 2010 at 11:36

Hi,

Just wondered whether anyone here had used a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R or UD5 or UD7 with 12GB of RAM?

Did you have any issues? Which did you buy?

Thanks,

somewhatdamaged · 17 May 2010 at 22:40

Running 12GB RAM here no problems whatsoever.

phillai · 19 May 2010 at 13:25

What is the real difference having 12 GB RAM and 6GB RAM on a day to day basis?

Will it make firefox run any better?

Ph4lanx · 20 May 2010 at 14:02

Will 12GB of RAM run Crysis?

(Sorry, I had to. You know someone else would have done it!)

{SAS}TB · 20 May 2010 at 22:09

12GB with a UD5 here

Didnt like the aesthetics with only 6

Higadeb · 20 May 2010 at 22:20

Literally just upgraded to 12GB RAM today using a UD5. Stress testing been stable for 4hrs so far and I haven't had to change any of the BIOS settings since adding in the second kit (my i7 920 is at 4.2GHz).

Ph4lanx · 20 May 2010 at 22:23

Do you lose triple channel mode if you fill all the slots?

Higadeb · 20 May 2010 at 22:40

Ph4lanx said:
Do you lose triple channel mode if you fill all the slots?

No, so long as you keep the kits in the respective slots.

scrlk · 20 May 2010 at 22:49

Real men use 24GB of RAM.

http://www.corsair.com/store/item_view.aspx?id=1242072

(please delete if against the rules)

Higadeb · 20 May 2010 at 23:53

Ouch! That's pricey

Shame it only goes up to 1333MHz and 24GB would just be stupidly pointless anyway :rolleyes:

bhavv · 21 May 2010 at 06:48

I enjoy my 12 Gb of 2133 Mhz stuff tht was £220

Worked fine on my UD5, but only does 1600 Mhz @ CAS 7, but thats still really good.

Ace Modder · 21 May 2010 at 07:43

bhavv said:
I enjoy my 12 Gb of 2133 Mhz stuff tht was £220

Worked fine on my UD5, but only does 1600 Mhz @ CAS 7, but thats still really good.

Did you get a decent clock on your CPU?

bhavv · 21 May 2010 at 07:46

Ace Modder said:
Did you get a decent clock on your CPU?

I had 4.2 Ghz on the UD5, currently can only manage 4.0 Ghz on the R3E without BSODs, but I'm hoping that a bios update will fix that.

You know you're absolutely barking mad when you worry over a 4.0 Ghz overclock on an I7 not being good enough

.

Heres how it used to be:

Never had a single crash, temps were much lower when not stressing all 8 threads, and I found out later that it could handle 7-7-7-20 @ T1. The ram runs the same now on the R3E, but the CPU BSODs at 4.2 Ghz. It took several bios updates on the UD5 to get those clocks as well.

Higadeb · 21 May 2010 at 10:23

bhavv said:
You know you're absolutely barking mad when you worry over a 4.0 Ghz overclock on an I7 not being good enough .

I agree. I spend ages trying to get my i7 stable at 4.6GHz then just gave up really. It's now at 4.2GHz and hasn't been above 45% usage, even when running multiple VM