Recent content by Sparky974

Sorry. Jeremy and Eximo! I am finally in touch with a Gigabyte technician who reaffirms that this MB is spec'd as able to run this CPU and RAM. The RAM can populate all four memory slots and will run at 1866MHz or above. The key is to have a rev. 3.0 motherboard along with the latest BIOS...

I did not "present [my] budget and requirements up front" because I was not asking about replacing my system or even individual components. My question was posed in the hope that someone had run across this problem before and possibly had a suggestion that might help. Oh, and I do not consider...

The QVL list you quoted is the initial list for the first release of the mb. Since that time there have been four revisions of the mb released and three BIOS revisions. One of the board revisions and at least one of the BIOS revisions expanded the memory options. Furthermore , I am using only...

The six-core CPU is more about the number of threads available than it is about flat-out speed. For graphics-intensive work the more threads the better. CPU improvements and instruction sets really aren't powerful motives to run out and buy the latest hardware either, as recently increasing...

Thank you for your research and reply. I will try to answer each item as there are some discrepancies with what I have learned. * The motherboard is ver. 3.0 and Gigabyte says for this mb " 4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 32GB of system memory. " Also: " Support for DDR3...

I don't think so ... It doesn't even pass POST with the 1866MHZ RAM installed, and therefore does not have the opportunity of "trying to run at 1866MHz". ( BTW, this is a new build. The motherboard and CPU were purchased new seven years ago. Due to major issues in my life at that time, I was...

Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 with AMD FD6100WMGUSBX FX-6100 Processor and Corsair Vengeance CMZ32GX3M4A1866C9. I am attempting to upgrade the RAM from 16MB 1600MHz Vengeance to 32MB 1866Mhz Vengeance. Gigabyte website and user's manual state that 1866MHz memory (and above) can be used if an AM3+...

Originally the with new RAM installed the machine would not make it through post -- then continuously shutdown and restart until it was powered off. At that time cleared the CMOS and the new RAM would cause it to hang and never complete POST yet there was no fault or error reported. I can't...

Answers to the questions posed thus far: I believe the RAM stick is working. I have four in matched set , brand new, and installed all together, two at once or one at a time gives the same result. I reinstalled the original RAM (same series, but 4GB1600 MHz ) and they worked fine. The mb is...

I have a Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 motherboard, an AMD FD6100WMGUSBX FX-6100 Processor. I am upgrading my memory. I have 32GB of Corsair Vengeanc CMZ32GX3M4A1866C9 . The m.b. manual states that 1866 MHz RAM is supported if a AM3+ processor is installed (mine is). But when I install the RAM the...