Need a board that takes DDR3(L) 1.35V

[Blue_Max]

I goofed. I bought 3x 4GB DDR3L-1333 desktop sticks for ridiculously cheap... only to find they won't work in most motherboards.

The Kingston FAQ says the latest 1150 and AM3+ motherboard chipsets should accept them, as well as some low-end ITX stuff like the Celeron 1037U and J2900, etc.

Anyone have any real-world experience with the stuff and advise me on what to do next?

Thanks.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Are you certain that you purchased unbuffered, and not registered? Unbuffered DDR3L should work in DDR3 mobos, at 1.5v even.

 

[Blue_Max]

Are you certain that you purchased unbuffered, and not registered? Unbuffered DDR3L should work in DDR3 mobos, at 1.5v even.

Very few boards have said they support 1.35V ram.

I'd better double-check, but I'm 99% sure it's NOT ECC.

 

[redzo]

I goofed. I bought 3x 4GB DDR3L-1333 desktop sticks for ridiculously cheap... only to find they won't work in most motherboards.

The Kingston FAQ says the latest 1150 and AM3+ motherboard chipsets should accept them, as well as some low-end ITX stuff like the Celeron 1037U and J2900, etc.

Anyone have any real-world experience with the stuff and advise me on what to do next?

Thanks.

Have you checked the spec sheet of the product?
Bellow there is one example.
http://www.kingston.com/dataSheets/KVR16LN11_8.pdf
While the product is named ddr3l and rated at 1.35v, there seems that a backwards compatible SPD profile of 1.5v is also present. It means that when you drop them in a 1.5v dimm only motherboard, the bios should be able to fire them up at 1.5v and kingston also seems to guarantee proper operation for 1.5v scenarios included.

 

[vailr]

I've previously used 1.35 volt Samsung DDR3 memory on a Gigabyte Z77-UD5H motherboard + Ivy Bridge CPU, with default speed and voltage settings. I have no real reason to think that your Kingston 1.35 volt DDR3 shouldn't work just fine with any chosen DDR3 slot motherboard. That's assuming that the PSU is also sufficiently "Haswell compliant", and not some older model of PSU. The motherboard bios should also be of fairly recent vintage: either recently made hardware or else with an updated bios firmware.

 

[Blue_Max]

Kingston kvr13lr9d8/4hc

Dangit... it's registered. You think it'll work in this 1366 board once I'm running a Xeon X5650?

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2959#ov

The good news is it supports a number of Xeons in the CPU support list... bad news is the RAM support list never specifies ECC...

 

[Lorne]

ECC not the same as Registered (Registered = Buffered)

ECC will work in most AMD boards.

Buffered memory is normally used in server boards (multi socket external MMU), And are really slow.

 

[Blue_Max]

4GB 2Rx8 512M x 72-Bit PC3L-10600
CL9 Registered w/Parity 240-Pin DIMM


I made a terrible mistake.

 

[piasabird]

If you purchased these at Newegg they might take them back. Maybe someone would swap you some other RAM for it.

 

[redzo]

Yup.
Just don't bother too much about it. Even if you'd have been picky about it and have checked gigabyte's specs of that mobo, you could have easily get tricked because it seems that GB does not specify the memory type supported(un-buffered vs registered) not even in its users manual for that mobo model.
Simply googling a competing product from that generation sheds some light. Asrock's specs are better, straight to the point. Example: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/X58 Extreme/

"- Supports DDR3 ECC, un-buffered memory with Intel® Workstation 1S Xeon® processors series"

While ECC works with Xeon, un-buffered is still mandatory. Registered is incompatible.

 

[Blue_Max]

*sigh* Anyone wanna' buy 'em? Dirt cheap.

[edit] Never mind! After a very polite conversation, the store IS going to take 'em back and let me buy the right stuff! Yay! Great guys!

(Memory Express in Canada... best guys around!)