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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: harleyman on February 03, 2010, 11:54:32 am

Title: G 31M Mobo & Ram
Post by: harleyman on February 03, 2010, 11:54:32 am

Hi..Am building a free rig for a friend..I have a 2X1 gig set of PC6400 Ram that this MoBo runs..

However I also have and would rather us eis a 2X2 Gig set of PC8500 Ram


I know the moBo will downclock the ram..Thats fine.i am not OCing this build

QUESTION...  To run the Patriot  PC8500 Ram will I need to set the voltages to the rated specs of this Ram to boot???

Thanks

Title: Re: G 31M Mobo & Ram
Post by: Elemental_Dragon on February 04, 2010, 04:23:58 pm

Should work fine. I've got 1200Mhz stuff in my G31.

Go into BIOS and change the RAM divider so it recognizes it as 1066mhz. You probably want to set the DRAM Voltage to that of what's recommended on the RAM for absolute guarantee of stability with it.

Hope that helps.

~Bex