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    Re: Need help in purchasing a new computer
    « Reply #15 on: January 01, 2014, 03:58:47 PM »
    I've heard bad things about team vulcan ram...

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    Re: Need help in purchasing a new computer
    « Reply #16 on: January 02, 2014, 06:37:17 AM »
    You linked it so I just stuck with it...in fact you linked faster, cheaper Team memory in your first post?
    It's as reliable as most, I certainly haven't heard terrible things about it.
    If you're not a fan, here's some Gskill for a little more, there are plenty of brands offering high speed memory around the same sort of price range.

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      Re: Need help in purchasing a new computer
      « Reply #17 on: January 02, 2014, 08:31:55 PM »
      one last thing I was looking at other rams,

      and my motherboard says

      "
          4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 64 GB of system memory
          * Due to a Windows 32-bit operating system limitation, when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory size displayed will be less than the size of the physical memory installed.
          * The maximum 64 GB of system memory can be supported using 16 GB (or above) memory modules. GIGABYTE will update the memory support list on the official website when the memory modules are available on the market.
          Dual channel memory architecture
          Support for DDR3 2400(OC)/2133/1866/1600/1333 MHz memory modules
          Support for AMD Memory Profile (AMP)/Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules
      "

      but the ram I am looking at
      has 1.6V instead
      of the 1.5V listed
      will this be a problem?

      also should i worry about latency and cas?

       Timing 11-11-11
      Cas Latency 11

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      Re: Need help in purchasing a new computer
      « Reply #18 on: January 03, 2014, 05:19:50 AM »
      It's not a problem.  1.5V is the standard voltage for DDR3, always has been, so every board that supports DDR3 will have "1.5V DDR3 DIMM slots".  You can safely use that RAM at its rated speed and voltage with that setup.

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        Re: Need help in purchasing a new computer
        « Reply #19 on: January 05, 2014, 04:06:21 PM »
        ok one last thing,

        I see alot of people buy faster ram but when they go into speccy
        it's clocked at like 600Mhz.

        Would i have to go into my BIOS and manually set it to 2133 MHZ since that's what my RAM's
        Clocked at?

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        Re: Need help in purchasing a new computer
        « Reply #20 on: January 06, 2014, 06:47:02 AM »
        DDR3 doesn't go as low as 600MHz.  It's likely that you're getting slightly confused between the actual clock frequency and the DDR frequency - the latter is twice the former, as it's Double Data Rate memory.  So for example, 1600MHz memory will be clocked at 800MHz, some programs read this frequency while others will read 1600MHz.
        You will need to set your memory to its rated speed, timings and voltage in the BIOS, yes, I always suggest doing this rather than leaving it to be set automatically.  Most memory will include a profile to do this, the procedure to load this will be detailed in your motherboard manual if required.