Does the MSI 970A-G46 Motherboard support a 1.6 memory?

[Fangarai]

I just bought a memory ( G. Skill Ripjaws DDR3 2133 8GB) that runs in 1.6v

My motherboard is an MSI 970A-G46 and I have no clue if it will run!

Help..?

 

[navalweaponsofficer]

It should run it, that is the O.C. voltage 2133 is an O.C. freq. It will start at 1.5V and prob 1600 or 1866 Mhz you will then need to ajust the freq and voltage in the BIOS.

 

[Fangarai]

It should run it, that is the O.C. voltage 2133 is an O.C. freq. It will start at 1.5V and prob 1600 or 1866 Mhz you will then need to ajust the freq and voltage in the BIOS.

Im kind of a newbie man (this being my first build) so I dont know anything of overclocking and im sort of afraid of frying the board.

Can my mobo run it without overclocking tho? Of course once I gain confidence I'll overclock (maybe).

 

[Tradesman1]

Yes it will be fine, what CPU? Might well have to drop them to 1866 anyway, very few of the FX CPUs can carry 2133 sticks

 

[navalweaponsofficer]

It should run it, that is the O.C. voltage 2133 is an O.C. freq. It will start at 1.5V and prob 1600 or 1866 Mhz you will then need to ajust the freq and voltage in the BIOS.

Im kind of a newbie man (this being my first build) so I dont know anything of overclocking and im sort of afraid of frying the board.

Can my mobo run it without overclocking tho? Of course once I gain confidence I'll overclock (maybe).

You wont fry anything. you dont evein need to change the freq and voltage idf you do not want to. Just put it in start it up and go from there. later on when you are more comfortable with your system and you want to see if you can increase the freq you can give it a try then.

But it will work fine now.

 

[Fangarai]

Yes it will be fine, what CPU? Might well have to drop them to 1866 anyway, very few of the FX CPUs can carry 2133 sticks

My cpu is the fx 6300, hopefully there is no problem there.

 

[Tradesman1]

With the 6300 can try running at 1866, have doubts it can carry 2133

 

[Fangarai]

With the 6300 can try running at 1866, have doubts it can carry 2133

So im looking at amd's website for the fx 6300, and it says the frequency is up to 3500.
Does that have anything to do with the number 2133?

 

[navalweaponsofficer]

That is CPU frequency not memory frequency. It does not really have anything to do with 2133. 2133 is the max rated speed of the memory. However you will likley only be able to get it to 1866 because of limitions of the memory controller.

 

[Fangarai]

With the 6300 can try running at 1866, have doubts it can carry 2133

That is CPU frequency not memory frequency. It does not really have anything to do with 2133. 2133 is the max rated speed of the memory. However you will likley only be able to get it to 1866 because of limitions of the memory controller.

Ahh I see. Thank you for explaining that. That makes sense.

 

[tulaneksig]

I have a very similar build and I also need help. This is my first build (very green newbie). Same msi mobo, amd fx-6350, 1 stick of ddr3 8gb ram 1866.

Everything was working great, running Ubuntu. I went into bios and switched memory to 1866. It had been running "auto" at 1333. Clicked the "x" in the bios to save setting and reset.

Something happened and nothing came back to the monitor. The power and reset stopped working. I restarted several times from the power supply and the same thing. The monitor is an Envision 17 inch.

Any ideas on how to bring this computer back to life would be amazing. I don't even know what to try.

Thanks!
@tulaneksig

 

[Tradesman1]

I have a very similar build and I also need help. This is my first build (very green newbie). Same msi mobo, amd fx-6350, 1 stick of ddr3 8gb ram 1866.

Everything was working great, running Ubuntu. I went into bios and switched memory to 1866. It had been running "auto" at 1333. Clicked the "x" in the bios to save setting and reset.

Something happened and nothing came back to the monitor. The power and reset stopped working. I restarted several times from the power supply and the same thing. The monitor is an Envision 17 inch.

Any ideas on how to bring this computer back to life would be amazing. I don't even know what to try.

Thanks!
@tulaneksig

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Try adding + 0.05 to the DRAM voltage and + 0.10 to the CPU/NB voltage