Memory for ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional

[tennvols_69]

Looking to pick up the ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional motherboard with the X6-1100T and would like to go 16gb of memory. Any recomendations on which kit to get. I do not mind fooling around with settings but at the very minimal I would like something that will post.

Im not sure if I plan on overclocking the 1100T, but would like some ram that would allow e to do it if I decided to at a later time.

[GSKILL TECH]

Here are the 16GB kits:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...D&Pagesize=100

The second or third options will be very nice for the price.

F3-17000CL11Q-16GBXL

F3-14900CL9Q-16GBXL

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

[Quaden]

I also recently purchased this same MB and CPU combo and have been trying to decide what RAM to run. I've been looking at G Skill DDR3-1600 16gb (4x4gb) due to the price point. However I have a few questions.

Will the low voltage Sniper series of RAM play nice with my AMD components or should I stick with the Ripjaws series that you suggested above?

What is the difference in Ripjaws series X and series Z? Is it just a different heat spreader look?

Thank you in advance.

[Tradesman]

With AMD the low voltage might work, but I think you might have trouble running at the rated voltage spec, would prob have to be higher, might look at the 1.5 snipers, which I haven't had trouble with on anything,

The Ripjaws X were designed for the P67/Z68/H67 chipsets/next gen CPUs and the newer Z series of Ripjaws toward the Socket 2011/H79 chipset, although both series are backward compatible

[Britton30]

Also have this same mobo and Sniper F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR, CPU AMD X6 1055T. Will these be compatible and work well?

[Gunite]

I have F3-17000CL11Q-16GBXL running @ 1866 cl 8 10 9 27 but with a FX 8120. I've yet to get all four running @ 2133 but I can get two to run @ 2133. So I settled on all four @ 1866. I love the features of this board!! Good luck

[Tradesman]

Britton30

(getting better, got the name right this time ha-ha), might take some tweaking but should be able to run them

[Britton30]

Thanks! Maybe in the future AMD's controllers will be able to handle 4 DIMMs at once. Cripes, look at the new quad channel and socket 2011 Intel has, up to 16 DIMMs.

[Tradesman]

And will handle 2400 and beyond, not long before sticks will be out going up towards 2800

[Britton30]

Which makes me wonder if DIMMs over 8GB are on the horizon.

[Tradesman]

Yep, 16GB DIMMs are out and available (Run around $210 to 280 of the few I've seen)

[Britton30]

Yep, 16GB DIMMs are out and available (Run around $210 to 280 of the few I've seen)

Very interesting, and expensive. But two years ago I paid Newegg $228 for two 2x2GB kits.

[GSKILL TECH]

Price fluctuates every day, like crude oil and gasoline.

Don't be surprised if you see DDR3 prices go up.

Thank you
GSKILL TECH

[Britton30]

OOOO if RAM prices are tied to oil, we're dead. But then I guess demand would drop like a rock too, I have several usable sets yet.
Like the Hard Drive price spike, people aren't buying new much at all unless it's critical.

[Tradesman]

True, and it's always handy to have a few sets around