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I recently managed to update my BIOS for my M5A97PRO using a Sempron 145 and a stick of 4GB HyperX Predator 1866Mhz borrowed from a friend. This system continued to work fine when the Sempron 145 was replaced with an FX8320. However, when I used my 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600Mhz RAM(1x8GB), the...

I'll see if anyone nearby can lend me some, do you think a 1866Mhz 4GB stick will boot? I presume the memOK will clock the RAM down fine.

I don't have any other DDR3 RAM sticks at hand unfortunately.

Is it more likely that the RAM is the problem, or the motherboard?

Can't get into the BIOS, the RAM needs to work first.

I recently put together a new build, before I can install my FX8350 I have to update the BIOS with a Sempron145. However, when I turn on my PC, the DRAM LED comes on, it recognises the RAM as being installed(No beeps), but when I press the memOK button it can't find a suitable setting for the...

After rethinking everything, I'm now fairly sure it's because the BIOS is outdated, I bought the standard M5A97Pro rather than the R2.0 model, and put in a Vishera CPU, so I guess I'll have to borrow a CPU from someone. I know it had no problem with motherboard power/DRAM modules/VGA because...

I recently did a new build with- M5A97 Pro FX8320 HD7870 black/tahiti 8GB (Single) Corsair vengeance OCZ Agility 3 SSD 120GB Toshiba laptop HDD 160GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB Seagate Pipeline HD.2 500GB OCZ 500W CoreXstream PSU Powercool Barracuda case. When turned on, the DRAM LED and...

Ebay Price lowered.

I have a 'Crucial 8GB Memory Module PC3-8500 1066MHz DDR3 Registered ECC CL7' DIMM, are there are AM3+ motherboards that would take this memory? The board I was originally going to buy was an M5A97 PRO(Don't need much more than that), would this do the job?

I think whatever you've been reading is very outdated, modern benchmarks from various independent sources but the FX8350 ahead of the i5 most of the time, and comparable to i7. i5s have 4 cores and 4 threads, and this will be the same with Haswell(Just with a 3-15% increase in IPC over Ivy). For...

I've found I could probably fit a Noctua NH-U9B-SE2 in the case, though it'd be tight. For the same price as a new case and a 212, I could get a NH-C14, which from what I've read should easily out perform the H212, and would fit nicely wit a single fan(Allowing me to make some money back on the...