This is my current motherboard: GA-880GA-UD3H This is my current RAM: 4gb Kingston Hyperx Blu This is what i want to up grade the ram too: 8GB Corsair XMS3 Can anybody tell me if my motherboard will support this ram? Any help appreciated!
Read your motherboard's manual, it will detail what memory it supports. Is there any particular reason why you want 2000Mhz rated RAM though?
2000MHz? You'll be lucky to run it at that speed quite frankly. The most recent Phenom II X6s can, but you need a good chip still. The board supports 8GB of memory though, but memory performance is entirely down to the CPU quality/volts/overclocking stability.
Yea motherboard does, but it's on condition the CPU and its memory controller can handle it RE: 2nd link, yea it'll most likely be fine. Check the Gigabyte website and get the latest BIOS just to be sure. Stick it on USB stick, go into the BIOS, hit F8 (iirc - or whatever says Q-Flash) and then update it from USB stick.
