Any running with all 4 DIMM slots occupied? Some Gigabyte boards seem to have reliability issues if using 4 DIMMs and I want to see if this one does.
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Only running two 8s myself. Have had numerous issues when powering off. Corrupt bios then backs up from other bios and works fine after that. Other than that. Love it.
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If memory serves me, no pun intended. If you have four slots they all have to be the same speed otherwise it will perform at the lowest speed, I have put 3 GB in 3 slots and 256mb in the fourth and had no issue. You will also want to see the maximum gigs your motherboard will support, if your motherboard only supports 4 gigs and not 8 gigs then adding it to what you already have would be pointless.
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I can only comment on the Asus...The Gigabyte does have the tri fan setup and supposedly quiet and runs cool. For me I have a large plexiglass window and asthetics are important and didn't like the lattice on the side and the Asus worked with my current theme. The Asus over clocks to 1300mhz and 8000mhz on the vram raising the voltage up to 1.21v. Runs not over 81*C. Not sure what the Gigabyte card does. Although I did have to RMA the Asus card twice for no display and was not an easy process. I now have the Asus GTX 770 4GB.
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According to the Manufactures specifications the board WILL accept a maximum of 32 Gb or RAM if you can locate the proper modules. I found some on Newegg.com and I am sure if you research other sites you may find more. The limit of 16 mb that others have mentioned is because they have not look far enough.
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Unfortunately, this model comes with only 2 DIMM slots and both are being used by the existing sticks of RAM already installed. This model has a 4GB and a 8GB of RAM installed.
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G.Skill memory, while fantastic, is not compatible with this board. Check out Memorystock or some other similar site for memory that will work. I have had exactly the same issues myself. Once I got compatible memory it fired up like a champ.
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Dirk, when I purchased the board last year I may not have acknowledged its PCIe 3.0 expansion slots; but according to ASUS, all 6 slots are PCIe 3.0. Sorry if I provided misinformation, hope it didn't hinder or delay your build.
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MSI has made some good motherboards for high end workstation chipsets for years. They may sell more outside the US, which explains why people haven't seen them much here. I have built several systems on MSI boards and I have no complaints.But that's also a limited statement. I haven't had to contact customer support so I have no idea how good it is or isn't. Their play on ultracompacts is somewhat risky with everything coming to market soon from all the big names. Let's see if beating the rush by a few months buys them some time.
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Running a Asus MB with w/16gb & 4770k chip. Experimented with running the ram at various speeds. No problems with underclocking the ram. No freezes at slower speeds. Best Wishes-Rick
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There are two memory slots which can take 2@4BG or 2@8GB. It comes with one slot taken at 4GB. I added a second so now have 8BG. It was easyYou will need to get unbuffered non-ECC DDR3 204-pin SO-DIMMs
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Do you have more than four slots to put them in? I haven't seen a MB with 6 slots yet.
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My guess here is that both slots (2) need to have the same amount of RAM. Since this laptop comes with 4GB, unless you replace it also, your max would be 8GB. However, if you purchase 2 DIMMs you could have as much as 2*8GB=16GB of RAM.
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Ripjaws doesn´t work in this board, 775 boards wichever brand have problem with 4GB Ram, they don´t work with any RAM.
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Has anybody tried a single 4GB stick of RAM in this? I'm wondering if it would work.
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Hey Paula, Yea these will work with the maximus vi formula. Just picked up that particular one from asus a few months ago with this exact RAM. I got two dimms as you see here which works just fine and performs great, but your cpu works even more efficiently if you get 4 sticks (4 x 4gb) instead since the motherboard is a dual-channel (in regards to the memory which means you can have either two sticks or four-the latter being better) one and therefore can have 4gb of ram allocated to each core of your processor. So, if you can go with 4. It's a little more expensive, but worth it in my opinion. Hey Paula, Yea these will work with the maximus vi formula. Just picked up that particular one from asus a few months ago with this exact RAM. I got two dimms as you see here which works just fine and performs great, but your cpu works even more efficiently if you get 4 sticks (4 x 4gb) instead since the motherboard is a dual-channel (in regards to the memory which means you can have either two sticks or four-the latter being better) one and therefore can have 4gb of ram allocated to each core of your processor. So, if you can go with 4. It's a little more expensive, but worth... » Read More Hey Paula, Yea these will work with the maximus vi formula. Just picked up that particular one from asus a few months ago with this exact RAM. I got two dimms as you see here which works just fine and performs great, but your cpu works even more efficiently if you get 4 sticks (4 x 4gb) instead since the motherboard is a dual-channel (in regards to the memory which means you can have either two sticks or four-the latter being better) one and therefore can have 4gb of ram allocated to each core of your processor. So, if you can go with 4. It's a little more expensive, but worth it in my opinion. « Show Less
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The answer is yes 32Gb is a go!! This is a real nice board but make sure you get the memory off the approved list of supported DIMM's. Hers is a link to the support page at MSI for this board. http://us.msi.com/product/mb/970AG46.html#hero-specification. Also if you go with Windows 8.1 download the necessary drivers form this page as the will be newer than those on the Disc. Good luck this MoBo Rocks!!
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The motherboard supports a total of 128GB of RAM. So that would allow you to put a 16GB module into every DIMM slot.