Newbie: Did I order compatible components? I'm beginning to doubt myself.

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Bonifacev

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I ordered the following memory, motherboard, cpu and psu as part of my first build. Are these components pretty close to being matched up? If not, where did I go wrong?

  • 3 x MEM 2Gx3|PATRIOT PV236G2000LLKB

    1 x MB ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 790GX/SB750

    1 x PSU CORSAIR|CMPSU-750TX 750W

    1 x CPU AMD|PH II X4 965 AM3 3.4G

I will be running Windows 7(64bit). Any feedback would be appreciated.
 
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Mod7PCs

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Looks good. One question did you order 3 of 2gx3? if so just send 2 of the sets back. I do not know anything about the board but it is AM3 and people love ASUS. As far as the PSU, you will be able to do what ever your heart desires with it great choice (okay maybe exaggerating a touch but dual cards, 10 fans and watercooling and you would still have room).

Good luck with the build.

Oh should ask these questions before you commit LMAO
 
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lopri

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Looks like you've purchased a tri-channel set memory. You can use those safely on AMD platform, but you'll have to give up 1) 2GB out of 6GB, or 2) dual-channel. Also I hope the sticks are not those w/ tall heatsink. It may interfere w/ after-market CPU heat sinks. Otherwise everything looks fine.

Welcome to AnandTech Forums.
 
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Bonifacev

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Sep 19, 2009
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So your saying even running Windows 7 in 64 bit the board will still limit me to 16gb and 2gb out of one of the 6gb sticks will likely fail to be recognized because of the board specs:

Memory Support
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Memory Technology: DDR3
Max System Memory: 16 MB
Number of Memory Slots: 4

I was gonna stick with 16gb but could not find memory 4gb(2 x2gb) with comparable specs to the patriot memory I ordered. The extra stick could turn out to be a costly mistake for the 2gb that will only get used. Well guess I'll see if the memory fits at all, because they do have tall heatsinks. Guess there is only one way to find out.

Thanks for responding.
 
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Bonifacev

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Probably a dumb question, but is there any card, gizmo or better motherboard I can purchase to bring my ram beyond the 16gb memory limit I see everywhere? i :frown:

I am a programmer by trade and have Windows 7 (64bit), SQL Sever, Visual Studio 2005, a unit test of our application running with connections to oracle and SQL, DotnetNuke, IM, Office Outlook, multiple instances of IE and Firefox with multiple tabs, terminal connections to UNIX open plus more. All this in addition to compiling my solution eats memory alive and brings my company issued piece of sh!t to its knees!!!

I am hoping my home built PC will solve this problem and if I get laid off from HP will be able to take on any contract job that comes along as job security.

Could you respond to this question please?
 
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Bonifacev

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Sep 19, 2009
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Naaa... The AMD Quad Core Chip comes close to the i7 at half the price when bundled with a motherboard which is basically a freebie.

I'd still like to exceed 16GB of RAM though. Maybe I should have built a server, but there has to be another way to pack more memory on a motherboard. I realize I'm a newbie, but back in the days of the Timex Sinclair 70's... we could do anything.

Certainly the computer geeks have gotten smarter since then... Doesn't anyone know how to blow past 16gb????

If so, tell me. My memory cost three times as much as my CPU & Motherboard combined.....
 
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Ayah

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There are definately ways to "blow" past 16GB. You can go past 100GB. You just can't do it with the average consumer budget.
There are always ways. Most people simply don't have the money to get there.

If you're looking to go past 16GB, you'll need to fork over some more dough.
 
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Deanodarlo

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Am I being a bit thick here, but you say you ordered 3 x MEM 2Gx3|PATRIOT PV236G2000LLKB.

Does that mean you ordered 9 sticks of 2GB memory (18GB) and you intend to use that on a board which only has four memory slots?

Surely all you can use is 8GB on that board with those sticks above, and 16GB max if you had order 4x4GB sticks instead???

Or am I missing something?
 
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Bonifacev

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Sep 19, 2009
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No. You nailed on the head. I messed up. Are 4x4GB sticks available? I didn't see any.

Looks like it will be no problem returning the unnecessary memory through Newegg and can use the money towards something else.
 
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Bonifacev

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Awesome! Thanks for the link. You should see how much I paid for the Patriot memory... Thankfully I can return it and maybe go with this Crucial memory instead.

I'll rack this one up as a learning experience.

Thanks again.
 
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JimmmyD

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Originally posted by: Bonifacev
Naaa... The AMD Quad Core Chip comes close to the i7 at half the price when bundled with a motherboard which is basically a freebie...
Click to expand...

This statement is False the AMD Quad core does not come close to the i7, plus if you want to run that much memory you absolutely need an i7 board for more memory slots...

I mean ultimately it will be cheaper to buy the i7 in the long run because of how much money you will have to spend an any 4GB sticks of memory.. Otherwise you better start looking for server boards and now we are talking price and mainly for the memory...
 
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ScorcherDarkly

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Originally posted by: Bonifacev
Awesome! Thanks for the link. You should see how much I paid for the Patriot memory... Thankfully I can return it and maybe go with this Crucial memory instead.

I'll rack this one up as a learning experience.

Thanks again.
Click to expand...

Just to be clear, the 4gb memory linked above is ONE STICK of 4 gb RAM for $280. If you want 16 gb of RAM, you're going to be buying 4 of those. That's $1120 for just the RAM.

Alternatively, buying a 1366 mobo and i7 920 will give you six DIMM slots instead of 4, which you can fill with high quality 6x2gb for less than $400. You'll only have 12 gb vs. 16, but at an enormous cost savings, and it'll be triple-channel memory instead of double.

Freebie mobo or not, the i7 is going to perform better and save you money if you're wanting to max out your RAM slots. It would be worth a second look.
 
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Bonifacev

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Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
Originally posted by: Bonifacev
Maybe a dumb question but isn't DDR3 triple channel memory? That's what is going in the board.

I based my AMD to Intel comparison a AnandTech article and benchmarks:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3639
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No, triple channel basically refers to running 3 or more (must be multiples of three) ram sticks together.
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Okay, so if I fill all four of the memory slots on my AMD board is that triple channel? Sorry about the dumb questions.
 
frostedflakes

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Originally posted by: JimmmyD
Originally posted by: Bonifacev
Naaa... The AMD Quad Core Chip comes close to the i7 at half the price when bundled with a motherboard which is basically a freebie...
Click to expand...

This statement is False the AMD Quad core does not come close to the i7, plus if you want to run that much memory you absolutely need an i7 board for more memory slots...

I mean ultimately it will be cheaper to buy the i7 in the long run because of how much money you will have to spend an any 4GB sticks of memory.. Otherwise you better start looking for server boards and now we are talking price and mainly for the memory...
Click to expand...
Yeah this is probably good advice.

As far as triple channel, that has to do with the architecture of the memory controller and not the memory sticks themselves. The memory controller on i7 is triple channel, but the memory controller on AMD CPUs is only dual channel. This means that you purchase memory for i7 systems in triplets and for AMD systems in pairs.
 
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