Will this memory work?

doyler78 · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:09

While phoning today regarding an RMA I'm putting through the issue of memory arose, though turned out not to be relevant to my problem, however it did make go home a look at what I had bought and now I'm worried.

I have a Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H (well will have after my RMA replacement comes). On reading the manual online it says that it takes 1.5V memory.

I have:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-048-GS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=

Which is rated at 1.6V (according to the actual memory sticks I have however the website says 1.65V).

Will it work?

(ST)Pohaku · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:18

I have the GA-MA770T-UD3, with the same RAM. The online manual for my mobo also states that it supports 1.5v DIMMs.

Mine works perfectly well - in fact, until I saw your post it never even occurred to me to check what voltage the mobo supported.

I did find, when I went into the BIOS to check the memory timings and speed, that the voltage was set at 1.5v and so I increased it to 1.6v myself at the same time as changing the other bits. No problems at all.

So yes, it will work!

RJC · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:20

Indeed it will work with a manual adjustment on voltage ect

doyler78 · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:21

Superb. So it won't crap out before I get into the BIOS to adjust?

RJC · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:22

Hopefully no

(ST)Pohaku · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:25

I used my rig for a day, including some Battlefield and plenty of downloading/installing, before bothering to tinker with my BIOS - it didn't even blink. So I reckon you're safe with it.

koolpc · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:26

What if one didn't adjust the voltage? Would it still work ok?

doyler78 · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:29

I'll have to cross my fingers because nothing else on this build has gone to plan so something has to

RJC · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:30

It most probably will as it would default to stock speeds ~ 1333mhz.

The op will need to manually adjust speed and timings.

doyler78 · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:31

Will start reading up now. Been a long time since I've done any tweaking.

(ST)Pohaku · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:33

If you're struggling when the time comes, Doyler, drop me a line (does PM work here? if not, just post again in this thread and I'll see it when it bumps to the top) 'cos it'll be near identical process for mine and your systems, and I only learned it myself last week.

Dead easy though, follow-yer-nose stuff.

doyler78 · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:35

Thanks a lot (ST)Pohaku will certainly give you a shout if I get stuck.

RJC · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:38

Best bet is to post here, PM'S are disabled on these forums

doyler78 · 6 Dec 2010 at 22:42

Thanks. Will do.