jrronimo Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Hi Guys, I have a Gigabyte GA-965GM-S2 (rev 1.0) motherboard. The Memory configurator recommends "TWIN2X2048-6400C4", which I would like to order -- it's pretty cheap on NewEgg! Plus a rebate? Woo! -- but I am leery of actually having 4 sticks of RAM in this motherboard. I previously had 4 sticks of another company in there but Vista Ultimate (32-bit) would blue-screen during boot complaining about an ACPI 2.0 compatible BIOS. 2 GB worked okay. Gigabyte said that the problem was I didn't use sticks that were on some compatibility list, etc., and the heatspreaders were real flimsy, etc... I RMA'd them and only now have the money to replace them, heh. Anyway, here is gigabyte's compatibility list: PDF Link. I know the manual for that board says that, in order to use 4 sticks of RAM, you need to use Double-Sided RAM. So, will 2 orders of this RAM work for me? It's on Corsair's compatibility list but not on GB's. I just don't want to get burned again. I know that 4 GB of RAM won't quite show up in a 32-bit system (and I might go 64... but that is to be worried about later). I just want to know if my machine will boot with these sticks. Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NathanE Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 After my experience (see thread) I would say you'd be better off getting 2x2GB sticks. More expensive but more stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrronimo Posted April 18, 2007 Author Share Posted April 18, 2007 I went ahead and ordered the 4 x 1 GB, fully expecting it to not work. :laughing: Unfortunately, this mobo doesn't have much in the way of voltage tweaks -- if any -- so I'll call Gigabyte and at least get them to tell me it's their fault. I feel like that is important somehow. I'd love to just get 2 x 2 GB sticks, but the latencies on those are not as good as the 1 GB sticks... I guess I'm hoping to be surprised. If it doesn't work... well maybe I'll have to get a new motherboard while I'm waiting for GB to release a BIOS update. *shrug* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted April 18, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted April 18, 2007 It will work but you might be limited to DDR533 or DDR667 with 4 modules with that MB would be the only thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrronimo Posted April 18, 2007 Author Share Posted April 18, 2007 Thanks for your input RAM GUY. In the NewEgg Customer Reviews for the board, it would appear that the "4 GB breaking Vista" problem has been solved -- the onboard video must be enabled. :laughing: If I'm going to be limited in speed, 533 is preferable to 667, correct? Because then the modules are in sync with the FSB or something like that? Hopefully I won't be limited, but I'm prepared to accept if I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted April 18, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted April 18, 2007 Just try it and see but I have run Intel I965 chipset MB's with a 1066 FSB with 4 1.0 Gig modules at DDR667 with out problems. GigaByte should be able to run at that speed as far as I know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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