I have a Gigabyte GA-EX58 Extreme motherboard I won in an online contest. I finally am getting around to building a computer in which I planned to use it. In buying parts for the build I made the mistake of accepting a store tech "expert's" word that Corsair CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 RAM was the correct product. I purchased 3 packages of 2 4GB RAM for a total of 24GB. I made the mistake of opening the packages during the build. I only discovered the so-called expert didn't read his data correctly or the data was wrong when I got an error code when I fired it up. Now I am stuck with RAM I can't use. Considering the cost of the RAM it occurred to me that maybe getting a motherboard that would accept the RAM might be better than buying yet more RAM. I cannot seem to find any facility that allows me to cross reference motherboards to RAM. Does such a thing exist?
I do pretty heavy graphics work and would like a board that has USB 3.0 and SATA 600 G/bits/s capabilities. I also purchased an Intel i7-950 processors so it needs to accept that as well.
Can anyone give me an idea where I could find a cross reference chart or some direction on a motherboard that might fit my needs?
Thanks in advance.
Too much trouble for you to go to the Gigabyte website or consult the user manual? http://www.gigabyte.us/products/pro...
"Memory
1. 6 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 24 GB of system memory (Note 1)
2. Dual/3 channel memory architecture
3. Support for DDR3 2100+/1333/1066/800 MHz memory modules(Go to Memory Support List for the latest memory support list.)"
User's manual has general specification which the RAM I bought falls into. Unfortunately, I trusted the vendor and his support material to provide the correct items. I did not consult the Gigabyte chart until after I had problems and that is my fault for not double checking each and every item. There is nothing I can do about that now. In going forward, I would like to find some kind of cross reference chart to tell me what this RAM would fit.
According to the specs of your current board, that ram should work. The brand name is not as important as the specs of the ram. I don't know of any cross reference charts for ram and mobo's. Maybe the Corsair site has a list of compatible mobo's, I never looked. When you installed the ram, what errors did you get? I noticed that it can run dual or triple channel configs.
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