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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Ali Nahavandi on February 10, 2015, 08:46:29 pm

Title: GA-EX58-UD5 and memory
Post by: Ali Nahavandi on February 10, 2015, 08:46:29 pm

Hi everyone. I am new, so be patient please. I have GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 X58 motherboard and CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600.
My computer is sooo slow. I want to increase my memory and am very confuse.
Should I add to what I already got or just buy a whole new kit.

I am looking at Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1866 MHZ (PC3 15000) Desktop Memory (CMD16GX3M2A1866C9).

Is this a wise move? can I add these pair to my 3 set.
Any other Ideas for increasing my memory??

Title: Re: GA-EX58-UD5 and memory
Post by: Nikolov on February 10, 2015, 09:38:56 pm

Hello,
what type of CPU you have, OS, what do you work with your PC? -You have enough memory.
Do you scan your PC for viruses, malware applications? How much free space you have on C partition- for virtual memory or page files, do you defragment you disk or clean disk? And the end format your PC and install new OS.

Title: Re: GA-EX58-UD5 and memory
Post by: Ali Nahavandi on February 10, 2015, 09:49:42 pm

Hi. Here is the summery of my system:
Motherboard                  GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 X58 RTL
Processor                          Intel Core i7 940 Nehalem 2.93GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor
Memory (part number) CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel
Video Card # 1                 ATI Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Video Card - 1GB GDDR5, PCI Express 2.0 x16
Hard Drive # 1                  Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1500HLFS 150GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
Case                                   Thermaltake ArmorPlus(Armor+) VH6000BWS  / Steel ATX Full Tower Comp
Power Supply                   Thermaltake Toughpower W0172RU 850W
Sound Card                       ASUS Xonar D1 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface Sound Card
Monitor                             BenQ BL3200PT
Operating System            Win. 7 64bit

I have 3 (each 3tb)other external H.D. for storage. So you think that's enough memory? I just checked and my C; drive has 5gb free. Is it too little free space left?
Thank for your input.

Title: Re: GA-EX58-UD5 and memory
Post by: dmdilks on February 11, 2015, 12:35:25 am

If you can stay with what you are running. You are not really going to see a big difference going to to 1866.

This is what it support for DDR3 2100+/1333/1066/800 MHz memory modules. If you got the 1600 running with no problem stay with it.