The Folks at MSI are advertising DDR3 2133 support for their 990FXA-GD80 MB. I just got these items and put them together today:
MB: MSI 990FXA-GD80 (http://us.msi.com/product/mb/990FXA-GD80.html)
CPU: AMD Phenom x4 3.5 GHz HDZ970FBGMBOX
Memory: G.SKILL F3-17000CL9D-8GBXM (2 sticks DDR3 2133 (PC3 1700)) (http://www.gskill.com/products.php?index=403)
Video: GIGABYTE GV-N56GOC (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...px?pid=3881#ov)
I've got the MB upgraded to MSI's Latest BIOS (11.5) and the system seems completely stable - The system did a great job of playing starcraft for the last couple hrs. I haven't tried the mb overclock feature yet to see what it will do with the memory and CPU settings. I've left it all on their 'AUTO' detect so far.
Problem is - the BIOS seems to detect the memory as DDR3 1600. This and looking at this forum leaves me with several questions:
Is this a good memory choice for this board?
Do I need to manually set the voltage?
What memory settings should I manually set to get the most from the G.SKILL memory in this setup?
MB: MSI 990FXA-GD80 (http://us.msi.com/product/mb/990FXA-GD80.html)
CPU: AMD Phenom x4 3.5 GHz HDZ970FBGMBOX
Memory: G.SKILL F3-17000CL9D-8GBXM (2 sticks DDR3 2133 (PC3 1700)) (http://www.gskill.com/products.php?index=403)
Video: GIGABYTE GV-N56GOC (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...px?pid=3881#ov)
I've got the MB upgraded to MSI's Latest BIOS (11.5) and the system seems completely stable - The system did a great job of playing starcraft for the last couple hrs. I haven't tried the mb overclock feature yet to see what it will do with the memory and CPU settings. I've left it all on their 'AUTO' detect so far.
Problem is - the BIOS seems to detect the memory as DDR3 1600. This and looking at this forum leaves me with several questions:
Is this a good memory choice for this board?
Do I need to manually set the voltage?
What memory settings should I manually set to get the most from the G.SKILL memory in this setup?
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