Trouble with X58 motherboards with 1600 DDR3 Memory

[Lordgene]

I am having a lot of trouble with this type of memory. I can only get 8GB of memory read on 2 channels and I want triple channel to work. When I put in the third DDR3 1600 Ram sticks, it won't boot the 3rd stick and instead disables it while the first 2 sticks work.

I need to know what I am doing wrong. I use the sabertooth x58 motherboard on a Intel 980 6 Core Processor Socket 1366.

I am waiting on my DDR3 1333 coming in the mail to make sure that they are not bad sticks I have. I RMA'ed 2 sets already and I feel the sticks are not the culprit. I used the mem ok on the board and it seems it got the 2 sticks to work but not the 3rd DDR3 1600 memory stick.

What is the memory settings of the board that I need to use? Or is this board too picky for the DDR3 1600 Ram sticks?


If the DDR3 1333 works then I will just use these sticks for now and put the 1600 on my AMD 8 core system...

 

[abekl]

It could be that you have 1.6 or 1.65 volt memory while the system requires 1.5 volt memory, you don't provide enough information to know.

 

[Lordgene]

It was the voltages on the bios. Needed to change it to higher voltage to get it to work. It's good niw

 

[Lordgene]

Best answer selected by LordGene.

 

[nikorr]

This topic has been closed by Nikorr