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Will my GA-P55-USB3 Motherboard run Gskill Sniper 1866 ram?

Nietzsche-san

Nietzsche-san

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Hey guys, so I've looked at the QVL for my motherboard as well as the specifications detailing compatible memory for my motherboard and the Gskill Sniper Ram I want to get to replace my current RAM doesn't seem to be compatible.

I want to upgrade because while playing SC2:HOTS recently, I've been getting alerts that my system does not have enough memory to run SC2 while other programs are running, which has NEVER been a problem. I altered my paging file size, but that doesn't seem to help. The only solution was to close almost every other superfluous program I have running. I do not want to have to do this for SC2, especially when I begin playing more hardware intensive games like FC3 and Crysis 3 after I upgrade my GPU in a few weeks. I could just buy 4 more gigs of the ram I have now, but wouldn't it just be smarter to get newer ram for when I eventually upgrade my MOBO? Or are the speed differences so minuscule and my primary problem, not having ENOUGH ram (4gb vs 8gb), should be my only concern?

I was told by some friends who I consider knowledgeable that the Sniper ram should work on my mobo, it will just lower the speed to 1333 automatically.


Suggestions?

Thank you!


Edit: I think I'm just going to go with the 1600 version of Gskill Sniper series, since the performance difference should be unnoticeable when I upgrade my MOBO/CPU in the future. Advice/knowledge is still welcome!
 
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Idea.

Get the sniper try it and return if it won't work. I would expect there be no problem and I do not know your consumer right in detail. Here we got a fortnight return on everything.

That's what I would do, but we are worlds apart and I agree with what you are doing. 🙂
 
I would do some googling for similar issues first. SC2 is still a 32-bit game, meaning it can't use more than 2GB. You'd have to have quite a lot of other stuff open to take up the remaining 2GB (or do you have quite a lot of other stuff open?)

The sniper ram will work but your friends are right, it will run at 1333MHz. You will have to overclock to get 1866MHz, but I doubt you'll notice any difference between the ram speeds.
 
Nietzsche-san said:
Hey guys, so I've looked at the QVL for my motherboard as well as the specifications detailing compatible memory for my motherboard and the Gskill Sniper Ram I want to get to replace my current RAM doesn't seem to be compatible.

I want to upgrade because while playing SC2:HOTS recently, I've been getting alerts that my system does not have enough memory to run SC2 while other programs are running, which has NEVER been a problem. I altered my paging file size, but that doesn't seem to help. The only solution was to close almost every other superfluous program I have running. I do not want to have to do this for SC2, especially when I begin playing more hardware intensive games like FC3 and Crysis 3 after I upgrade my GPU in a few weeks. I could just buy 4 more gigs of the ram I have now, but wouldn't it just be smarter to get newer ram for when I eventually upgrade my MOBO? Or are the speed differences so minuscule and my primary problem, not having ENOUGH ram (4gb vs 8gb), should be my only concern?

I was told by some friends who I consider knowledgeable that the Sniper ram should work on my mobo, it will just lower the speed to 1333 automatically.


Suggestions?

Thank you!


Edit: I think I'm just going to go with the 1600 version of Gskill Sniper series, since the performance difference should be unnoticeable when I upgrade my MOBO/CPU in the future. Still, advice/knowledge is still welcome!
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The speed difference is essentially almost zero. I suggest getting 8GB or 12GB in there, the cheapest way you can.

Much better to spend $ on an SSD upgrade.
 
dclive said:
The speed difference is essentially almost zero. I suggest getting 8GB or 12GB in there, the cheapest way you can.

Much better to spend $ on an SSD upgrade.
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Hmm, well $66 doesn't seem too bad for 8gb. Also, I do have a CrucialM4 SSD 120gb, but I didn't put Hots on it. But thank you all for the advice!

I think it's a failing stick even though it passed the Windows memory test. Or an L3 cache failure?
 
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