Slightly OT - Memory Upgrade

Hi all,
apologies for what is slightly OT, but being a longtime reader of this
NG I value the expertise on offer.

My slightly ageing PC has an MSI Motherboard MS7592 6.0 with 4 GB DDR3
memory which I would like to upgrade to 8GB. OS is win7 64-Bit.

The specs on the MSI site say that my MB will take DDR3 memory modules
800, 1066 or 1333 overclocked. What does this mean. Most memory on offer
now seems to be at least 1333. Can I use this without damaging my
Motherboard or would it be better to use 1060 modules which are not so
widely available?

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Regards
Eddie King

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On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 16:14:36 +0200, Eddie King
wrote:

apologies for what is slightly OT, but being a longtime reader of this
NG I value the expertise on offer.

My slightly ageing PC has an MSI Motherboard MS7592 6.0 with 4 GB DDR3
memory which I would like to upgrade to 8GB. OS is win7 64-Bit.

The specs on the MSI site say that my MB will take DDR3 memory modules
800, 1066 or 1333 overclocked. What does this mean. Most memory on offer
now seems to be at least 1333. Can I use this without damaging my
Motherboard or would it be better to use 1060 modules which are not so
widely available?

It would be best to use the fastest the motherboard can manage, and
make them all the same because if you mix and match, the overall speed
will be the speed of the slowest ones. It won't do any harm using 1333
if that's what's most readily available, but they won't run at 1333
unless all of them are capable.

If the motherboard can only run the memory at 1333 if overclocked, you
may need to adjust a setting in the bios, but you should still make
sure all the memory modules are of the same type. If you want to make
a difference, it might be worth considering the economics of replacing
the lot.

If you *really* want to make a difference, consider adding a 60GB or
120GB SSD and making a clean installation of the operating system on
it, then reformat the existing hard drive as a storage drive. It'll
feel like a new computer regardless of what you do to its memory.

Rod.

It would be best to use the fastest the motherboard can manage, and
make them all the same because if you mix and match, the overall speed
will be the speed of the slowest ones. It won't do any harm using 1333
if that's what's most readily available, but they won't run at 1333
unless all of them are capable.

If the motherboard can only run the memory at 1333 if overclocked, you
may need to adjust a setting in the bios, but you should still make
sure all the memory modules are of the same type. If you want to make
a difference, it might be worth considering the economics of replacing
the lot.

If you *really* want to make a difference, consider adding a 60GB or
120GB SSD and making a clean installation of the operating system on
it, then reformat the existing hard drive as a storage drive. It'll
feel like a new computer regardless of what you do to its memory.

Rod.

Sorry for not making myself clearer. At present there are 2 Modules @
2GB each. I intend to replace these with 2 Modules @ 4 GB. According to
the MSI site, the MB can support max. 8GB and has two DIMM slots.

My concern is that if I buy 1333 modules they might not work and I have
absolutely no idea about overclocking.

Eddie

On 13/09/2015 17:30, Martin wrote:

I've bought memory from Crucial several times.Never had a problem with Crucial
or the memory they supply. I'd buy from them again and probably will someday.

Me too.
I have used their analysis tool for an unbranded (custom built) PC and
have used their make/model search for an HP processor.

Both sets of memory just plugged in and worked.

I would also happily use Crucial again.

Jim

On 13/09/2015 15:14, Eddie King wrote:
Hi all,
apologies for what is slightly OT, but being a longtime reader of this
NG I value the expertise on offer.

My slightly ageing PC has an MSI Motherboard MS7592 6.0 with 4 GB DDR3
memory which I would like to upgrade to 8GB. OS is win7 64-Bit.

The specs on the MSI site say that my MB will take DDR3 memory modules
800, 1066 or 1333 overclocked. What does this mean. Most memory on offer
now seems to be at least 1333. Can I use this without damaging my
Motherboard or would it be better to use 1060 modules which are not so
widely available?

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Regards
Eddie King

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if you use the pc scanner at crucial.com it should tell you what you can
use - even if you ultimately purchase elsewhere.

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You would think by now some bright hardware whizzo would hav made an adaptor
that configured say, 2 gig sticks so 2 would look like 1 four gig one would
you not?
I suppose this might slow them down though.
Brian

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On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 16:14:36 +0200, Eddie King
wrote:

Hi all,
apologies for what is slightly OT, but being a longtime reader of this
NG I value the expertise on offer.

My slightly ageing PC has an MSI Motherboard MS7592 6.0 with 4 GB DDR3
memory which I would like to upgrade to 8GB. OS is win7 64-Bit.

The specs on the MSI site say that my MB will take DDR3 memory modules
800, 1066 or 1333 overclocked. What does this mean. Most memory on offer
now seems to be at least 1333. Can I use this without damaging my
Motherboard or would it be better to use 1060 modules which are not so
widely available?

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Try http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en and run the scanner.

The result will give you the memory you can fit for your motherboard.
The result gives you you motherboard make, model and memory options.

Of course you may have discard you existing memory.
For example, I have 4 memory slots and if it was populated by 4 x 1meg
memory I would have to throw those away and buy 4 x 2meg memory.

The results are guaranteed compatible, so it says.

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That's how it works, dual channel memory access is normal. It also means
that 2 sticks will be faster than one stick twice the size as they are
arranged so that accesses or writes are split from/to both.

Brian-Gaff wrote:
You would think by now some bright hardware whizzo would hav made an
adaptor that configured say, 2 gig sticks so 2 would look like 1 four
gig one would you not? I suppose this might slow them down though.
Brian