A10-6800k stability with TridentX 2400

[Fizrug]

Hello

I am slowly changing the weakest link in my PC and after upgrading my CPU to A10-6800k (will use the system as GPUless entertainment PC later on ,270x used atm) planning on replacing the RAM.

The question is: will G-Skill TridentX 2400 CL10 cause any issues?

I am asking this as in this review:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/memory-scaling-gaming-haswell-richland,review-32778-16.html
They mentioned that "platform’s integrated GPU became unstable at DDR3-2400"
My MOBO is: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-HD3, which has 2400 indicated as max ram speed (so might push it to instability?), but APU afaik benefits from the higher speed.

The size I am going for is 2x4Gb. And the mobo compatibility doesn't list F3-2400C10D-8GTX set as compatible.
Also, what about 2400 CL9?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[Tradesman1]

Shouldn't have any problems with it, your APU can handle it, mobo should be fine (make sure you upgrade to latest BIOS) - if any problems give a shout

 

[Fizrug]

Shouldn't have any problems with it, your APU can handle it, mobo should be fine (make sure you upgrade to latest BIOS) - if any problems give a shout

Thanks for the encouraging info.

Really hoped that will not have to tinker with my BIOS, updating it through dos boot seems scary (qflash didn't want to go from F1 to F7 version).
I did read in several places here that bios updating is something that is "don't fix if not broken" thing, but it still might help a bit?

 

[Tradesman1]

Yes, and the updating the BIOS isn't anything like it used to be, it's normally pretty straight forward and easy, I prob do at least 2 mobos a month and haven't had one brick in about 4-5 years now

 

[Fizrug]

Yes, and the updating the BIOS isn't anything like it used to be, it's normally pretty straight forward and easy, I prob do at least 2 mobos a month and haven't had one brick in about 4-5 years now

Well, after waiting the anoyingly long delivery time, (delivery to eastern europe is a bit slow, grumble grumble), just had to plug and tinker in bios and crash it and retinker and play.
But damn these things are solid compared to bare ram sticks.

Seem to work fine at full speeds, but it's hard to notice (big) performance increase (over 1333s) when it's the lack of little anoyances that has improved. But noticed that the system boots and shuts down much faster.

 

[hang-the-9]

A rule of thumb to notice a performance increase without a benchmark is you need about a 25-30% speed increase to say "hey that is faster" just by how it feels. I doubt just the RAM speed would give you that much of a boost, but you can definitely see results that are measured with a benchmark.