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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: abrogard on March 23, 2017, 11:47:44 pm

Title: GAB75M-D3V and DDR3 1600
Post by: abrogard on March 23, 2017, 11:47:44 pm

I have this GAB75M-D3V board and it has DDR3 1600 Ram in it.

Just looking at the specs today I see they say to have an Ivybridge processor if you want to  run that RAM.

But I have an i3 2130 in there and that's a Sandybridge cpu.

How come it runs at all?

We've been having some problems with that build and I this morning pulled one stick out (leaving one in) in an attempt to fix them.   Could that be the whole problem?  i.e. it can be expected to work but not reliably?

Title: Re: GAB75M-D3V and DDR3 1600
Post by: shadowsports on March 24, 2017, 01:54:35 pm

Requirements for DDR 1600 support is stated, just like you mentioned.

3.Support for DDR3 2200(OC)/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules
* To support DDR3 1600 MHz, you must install an Intel® 22nm (Ivy Bridge) CPU that supports DDR3 1600 MHz.

5.Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules
 * To support XMP memory, you must install an Intel® 22nm (Ivy Bridge) CPU that supports DDR3 1600 MHz.

What this is basically saying is the MCH in the CPU and BIOS programming does not support above 1333 reliably.