ASUS P5G41T-M LX PLUS + F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL or XL

[krick]

In the manual for the ASUS P5G41T-M LX PLUS motherboard, it claims that it supports up to 8GB of memory total. There are two memory slots on the board. In the manual, there's a note that says...

"This motherboard does not support DIMMs made up of 256 megabits (Mb) chips or less."

...This is referring to the individual chips on the DIMMs themselves.

This board has the Intel G41 chipset, but it takes DDR3 memory.

I'm considering purchasing the G.Skill kit F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL or F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL. Both are 2x4GB kits. Are these kits compatible with this motherboard restriction on DIMM chip size? The individual chip size doesn't appear to be published anywhere so I want to be sure before I make a purchase.

If not, can you suggest a different 2x4GB kit?

[Tradesman]

It also only supports up to 1333 DRAM, the set you have chosen is 1600 - I'd take a look at the 2x4GB 1333 sets, should have no problem with most any of the Ripjaws, Snipers or Ares models

[krick]

Thanks for the info, but when you overclock by jacking up the front side bus on the G31/G41 based boards, don't you need faster memory due to lack of proper memory dividers?

[Tradesman]

To be honest, I don't know, it came out as a 800/1066 DRAM mobo and with the BIOS upgrade to add additional CPUs they kicked spec up to 1333 (OC). Most of my socket 775 was with the P series chipsets 31/35/43/45 and the nVidia sets