ddr 3 ram with 6th gen cpu?

[Taileduchiha]

the motherboard im buying supports ddr 3 and i plan to put in a i5 6400? are these compatible ?, according to the place im buying they are. but i just wanted to make sure as im stressing right now, i dont want to waste money on something that could potentially break :9

 

[ruida_silva]

If the motherboard is a socket LGA1151 which is the same as the i5 6400 then it should work. However you have to use DDR3l ram. If you check the intel website for that CPU, it only supports DDR4 and DDR3l RAM. My suggestion is buy a DDR4 motherboard with the socket LGA1151 and buy DDR4 RAM. Hope this helps

 

[atljsf]

the socket is compatible? what mainboard?

why are you buying ddr3 mainboard this year? ddr4 is quite old now, so a ddr4 mainboard for a 6th gen cpu is alot more safer, cost effective and faster

 

[DRagor]

Normal DDR3 is not supported by 6th gen CPU. Attempts to combine them ended in spectacular failures. DDR3L will work with this CPU, but unless you already have this kind of memory you are way better buying DDR4 RAM and DDR4-compatible motherboard.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Normal DDR3 is not supported by 6th gen CPU. Attempts to combine them ended in spectacular failures.

Eh, not really, Skylake has no problem starting up and running with full voltage DDR3. The concern is that running Skylake with 1.5V RAM could damage the IMC in the long run (although I've never heard any reports of this happening).

 

[Taileduchiha]

i found a motherboard of similar price, but it supports only Ddr4 sdram??

 

[TJ Hooker]

Do you already have DDR3 RAM from a previous build? If not, there's no reason to not go with DDR4. Even if you do, you're probably still better off just getting new RAM.

 

[Taileduchiha]

yeah i had if i buy the new ram i will only have 4gb, if i choose 8gb i wont have enough cash to get the game i want but oh well a component is better than a game i cant play properly anyway. so yeah it would best

 

[atljsf]

if you plan to play on 4 gbs of ram, you won't have enough ram, you need 8

the game if it is from steam, wait for it to have a discount, i bought 2 this way, from full price to 60 or 40%

 

[Taileduchiha]

yeah i found a way to get both and b250 bord so i can support 7th gen and a gtx 1060 3gb? i should be able to play the games with this?? second is ddr4 really a huge improvement over 3?

 

[TJ Hooker]

Yes, a B250 mobo can support 7th gen Intel CPU and GTX 1060.

Upgrading to DDR4 isn't really about getting a big performance increase, it's just DDR4 is the new standard and that's what you'll have to go with if you want to use modern CPUs.

 

[atljsf]

you need ddr4, it doesn't matter if it improves or not, sell the ddr3 or keep it as a plan b pc