Ram questions for motherboard!!

[Rain0707]

Hello
I have a Asus M5a97 R2.0 mother board and I'm buying a AMD (tm) 8320 eight-core processor and I figured I would go ahead and upgrade my ram as well so I was looking at the G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-1866C10D-16GSR and was wondering would it even fit into my motherboard.
Is this good ram and if not can anyone give me some suggestions?

 

[DonkeyOatie]

That is 'standard' DDR3 memory and will fit in the motherboard and run on it if you have a 64bit OS.

Here's the specification sheet. https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/specifications/

which shows that it will support your memory. That's a good board for a FX83xx and for overclocking it.

Memory is almost a commodity. G.Skill is a very reputable brand.

 

[SPgamer007]

Hello,
Asus M5A97 R2.0 supports RAM upto 32GB at 2300MHZ, yours is 16GB at 1866MHZ.

G.skill are well known in the market, you are good to go. 😉

 

[SPgamer007]

Not the best board for Overclocking, but can still overclock the CPU a bit safely.

 

[DonkeyOatie]

Not the best, but still good enough for a very good air-based overclock.

 

[Rain0707]

Not the best, but still good enough for a very good air-based overclock.

Asetek 510LC Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Enhanced Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA) (Dual Standard 120MM Fans (Push-Pull) is my cooling system so will this suffice??

 

[Rain0707]

That is 'standard' DDR3 memory and will fit in the motherboard and run on it if you have a 64bit OS.

Here's the specification sheet. https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/specifications/

which shows that it will support your memory. That's a good board for a FX83xx and for overclocking it.

Memory is almost a commodity. G.Skill is a very reputable brand.

FX83xx is a processor I assume and where can I look at them too check them out?

 

[DonkeyOatie]

FX83xx just means any FX83 processor, FX8320, FX8350, FX8370...

If that's the cooling that you have, it will work on that CPU/motherboard combination. I prefer air over smaller liquid cooling, unless there is a very good reason for it. (space or frequent transport)