Memory voltage for GIGABYTE mobo...

[Ramodkk]

Hey guys I've been looking at this mobo, and went to the site at GIGABYTE.com and it says that it supports 1.8v memory. Now I see in Newegg and the better memory sticks aren't 1.8v.. does it matter If i get for example a 2.2v or a 1.9v?? Also whats a set of 2x1GB that has a good price/performance ratio?

Mobo is the GA-M61P-S3

- http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2416

thanks for any input

 

[paratwa]

Gigabyte is usually pretty good about auto detecting the voltages and auto setting it up. But some times you will have to go into the bios and set the voltages and cas timing manually. It's not a big deal if you have to do that though.

But yeah it will work with different voltages.

Asus boards are really bad about having to set timings manually.

 

[Ramodkk]

Thanks, then in short any of these would work right? If the mobo doesn't adjust the voltage then I'd have to do it manually but thats it right?

- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145590
or
- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227139
or
- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220144

 

[paratwa]

This is the one I like,

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145034

it has a cas of 4 and timings of 4-4-4-12.

Pretty fast ram.

 

[Ramodkk]

Lol im sorry i dont get all the timings stuff, could you briefly explain?

 

[Cromewell]

The lower the timings the faster the RAM responds. Performance wise lower timings generally aren't as good as more speed.

 

[paratwa]

The lower the timings the faster the RAM responds. Performance wise lower timings generally aren't as good as more speed.

Am I reading this right? Did you just contradict yourself?

Lower timings, faster ram, but lower times aren't fast?

Is that what you said?

 

[Cromewell]

It doesn't sound right but slower timings can actually be faster. Timings are measured in clock cycles so if you have faster RAM it can hide a higher latency. Check out the last part of this post

As for the gigabyte board here, it might not set the voltage correctly, I had to set the voltage on my gigabyte board. It was still able to boot the RAM at 1.8V though.