Warren Young wrote:
On 6/3/2014 12:26, Lists wrote:
Registered/Unregistered, CAS timing, single/double/quad ranked, never mind voltages, and making sure your CPU supports it!
All of those specs are listed in the motherboard manual. If you're buying your RAM from a reseller that doesn't give you the corresponding specs to match up against the mobo specs, stop buying from that vendor.
There are vendors that will match up your specific motherboard with the RAM that works in it, and will exchange the RAM for the right stuff if by some tiny chance they specified the wrong stuff. (e.g. Crucial)
Buried in some of them, and others, well, it tells you what it will take... and it *assumes* that you're just building the system, and buying all the DIMMs as one batch, *not* that you're replacing a failed DIMM. But you've got to match even things like cl2whatever. If it doesn't have *exactly* what's on the other DIMMs, it won't work.
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