Hey guys, just thought id leave a little note.
Have been reciently been building a machine for a friend only to find that the ram is too wide to fit when using more than 2 slots.
The board is a Gigabyte, but looking at the screen shots of a lot of other boards .. they will have the same Issue. as follows.
If anyone intends to use either 4x1gb or 4x512mb ram modules of OCZ platinum DDR ram, then make sure your motherboard will support its width.
If your motherboard has its dual channel slots seperated (two slots next to each other.. then a gap.. then the other two slots) you should be ok. but if like on the gigabyte boards all four slots are touching each other, then after two OCZ Platinum modules are loaded in .. there will not be enough room to place ram into the third slot. OCZ have huge heatsinks, making them fantastic for high speed, low latency and good overclocking ram, But the size of the heatsinks make each module slightly larger than generic memory slots.
Hope this saves some people the RMA process ..or alows you to consider different branded ram or motherboard when building.
Cheers
RO
Have been reciently been building a machine for a friend only to find that the ram is too wide to fit when using more than 2 slots.
The board is a Gigabyte, but looking at the screen shots of a lot of other boards .. they will have the same Issue. as follows.
If anyone intends to use either 4x1gb or 4x512mb ram modules of OCZ platinum DDR ram, then make sure your motherboard will support its width.
If your motherboard has its dual channel slots seperated (two slots next to each other.. then a gap.. then the other two slots) you should be ok. but if like on the gigabyte boards all four slots are touching each other, then after two OCZ Platinum modules are loaded in .. there will not be enough room to place ram into the third slot. OCZ have huge heatsinks, making them fantastic for high speed, low latency and good overclocking ram, But the size of the heatsinks make each module slightly larger than generic memory slots.
Hope this saves some people the RMA process ..or alows you to consider different branded ram or motherboard when building.
Cheers
RO