Gigabyte's P35C DS3R and ddr3 ram

pauljen296 · 13 Jun 2010 at 12:05

I have a Gigabyte P35C DS3R mothorboard and a intel E7200 with 2GB of DDR 2 Ram, What my problem is i haven't got enough ram should have brought 4GB when i had the changes so what i want to know is it ok to buy 4GB of DDR 3 Ram and will it work with that ram? The motherboard has the DDR3 slot and when i do upgrade i could use that ram on my next build just wanted to know will it work.

MiNxYyY · 13 Jun 2010 at 12:20

Go to the crucial website and do a hardware scan

It will tell you what Memory you can install, which slots and how much

Just to be on the safe side

pauljen296 · 13 Jun 2010 at 20:21

cheers just trying that website now.

Boozebeard · 13 Jun 2010 at 20:33

It wont work along side your ddr2 if thats what you're asking.

pauljen296 · 13 Jun 2010 at 20:44

I know that, It more to do with cost I can get 4GB of DDR3 ram for the price of 4GB DDR 2 ram no point in buying old ram when i can have new DDR3 ram for the same money.

marktime · 13 Jun 2010 at 21:32

Am I right in thinking, however, that you will need the older spec DDR3 as the new stuff rated 1.6v max will not run. Unfortunately this will not, then, be usable if you switch to a 1366/1156 board.

[edit] Actually, just checking on the crucial guaranteed-compatible memory for that board they do list 1.5v DDR3 so you should be ok.

pauljen296 · 14 Jun 2010 at 18:00

I just don't fancy spending £130 odd on a 4GB DDR2 to have to buy another set 6 months down the line.

Avathar77 · 18 Jun 2010 at 09:55

You can under volt the ram on that board, not tried it on ddr3 though! so even if you get 1.6V you should be able to run it on 1.5V

robgti · 21 Jun 2010 at 09:25

Sorry to hijack this thread but i got the same motherboard and bought some Micron DDR3 ram. The specs match up with the requirements of the board but when i have it installed and turn it on, it just keeps rebooting itself.

Any ideas?

pauljen296 · 21 Jun 2010 at 13:18

I had that problem but only when I was trying to overclock and that was due to wrong ram setting. Have you tried resetting the motherboard. that might work. With mine I was able to put them in and it set it's self accordly. Only when I mucked about with it did it go wrong. :rolleyes:

robgti · 21 Jun 2010 at 13:25

How do you reset the motherboard?

pauljen296 · 21 Jun 2010 at 13:39

Just pull the battery out for 5-10 min then put it back in. should do the job. Or just to the right of the battery there's a jumper which say CLR cmos just move the jumper to that then back again pretty straight forward. Make sure the powers off. If that fails try using one stick of ram and see if it boot.

robgti · 21 Jun 2010 at 13:47

I have tried only one stick and it was doing the same. The board is second hand so am i right in thinking that the settings would have been wrong for DDR3?

robgti · 21 Jun 2010 at 15:28

Well i have just tried both sticks one at a time in the other channel and it boots up fine.

pauljen296 · 21 Jun 2010 at 17:45

how much ram did you buy? the max you can have is 4GB of DDR3. Are they a a matching pair?

pauljen296 · 21 Jun 2010 at 17:48

also How many time doe's it reboot mine would take 3 or 4 before it reset to default and boot.

robgti · 21 Jun 2010 at 18:34

only 2gb or ram and yeah a matching pair. Think the problem might be the last person to have it before me has flashed the bios with the p35-ds3r bios and not the p35c one.