Quad Channel ram for LGA1366

[AdamV]

Does anyone know if a quad channel kit such as this Dominator kit will work with my LGA 1366 Gigabyte G1Killer motherboard? It says it runs at 1866mhz but is that when overclocked or stock? Would i be able to underclock them to match my 4.0ghz overclock?
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16820233228

Reason i want a quad channel kit is for future upgrades.

[ZJChaser]

1366 is triple channel.

[SlaveOnDope]

Better off buying two sets of these
Run three on your X58 and use the forth on your upgrade. They will clock to 2400+mhz 10-12-12 timings with SB/IB and should do ~1600mhz 7-7-7 timings -~1866mhz 8-8-8 timings - ~2000mhz 9-9-9 timings on X58.

[Vengeance]

It will work, but you won't be running triple channel like ZJ mentioned.

[AdamV]

thanks for the quick replies. I realize my board isn't quad channel, the 4th ram stick would be set aside for future uses.

Additional Comment:

Originally Posted by SlaveOnDope

Better off buying two sets of these
Run three on your X58 and use the forth on your upgrade. They will clock to 2400+mhz 10-12-12 timings with SB/IB and should do ~1600mhz 7-7-7 timings -~1866mhz 8-8-8 timings - ~2000mhz 9-9-9 timings on X58.

Wow what a find! I did some checking up on these ram kits and they seem pretty awesome. Ordering 2 sets and giving them a try.

[ZJChaser]

I can tell ya I just installed a quad channel Dominator GT mem kit on an X79 build I was building for a friend. enabld XMP and it loaded right up to its 2133 profile. No issues at all, all timings spot on. It was this kit: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16820233230

[AdamV]

Major pro for the samsungs are the low profile design. Now i can finally put side fans on my Scythe2 CPU heat sink.

[FX5200]

What I don't understand. I know 1366 is triple channel, but if you install 3 sticks of a 4-stick kit, it should still run in 3 channel yes?

[ZJChaser]

Originally Posted by FX5200

What I don't understand. I know 1366 is triple channel, but if you install 3 sticks of a 4-stick kit, it should still run in 3 channel yes?

yes........

[TRI-MIX]

Just in installed 24gigs --SNIPER F3-17000CL11D-8GBSR on a rampage III
extreme and it run great

[LordVampyre]

Im curious. What would happen if you indeed put the 4th stick in. Is there that much difference between "regular" and triple channel??

Dont wanna mess up anything in my system so Im not willing to test it out.

[Deluded]

Originally Posted by LordVampyre

Im curious. What would happen if you indeed put the 4th stick in. Is there that much difference between "regular" and triple channel??

Nothing. The system will run at dual channel instead of tri channel.

The memory performance will be different (obviously), but beside memory intensive programs, you likely won't see differences.

[Nagoshi]

Originally Posted by LordVampyre

Im curious. What would happen if you indeed put the 4th stick in. Is there that much difference between "regular" and triple channel??

Dont wanna mess up anything in my system so Im not willing to test it out.

No there would be very little performance difference (most likely to be seen only in benchmarking applications as well as heavy RAM use), and it would most likely work in dual channel.

In my previous rig (i5 750, P55A-UD4P), I was using 2x2GB in single channel (instead of dual channel) due to faulty DIMM slots. Saw no performance increase at all the day they started working again when I changed the RAM in there...

[SlaveOnDope]

Originally Posted by Deluded

Nothing. The system will run at dual channel instead of tri channel.

The memory performance will be different (obviously), but beside memory intensive programs, you likely won't see differences.

X58 will actually run in tri still with 4 sticks and the 4th in some odd single channel mode with resource sharing or something.

Wish it actually ran in dual with 4 sticks as performance would be better.

[Nagoshi]

Originally Posted by SlaveOnDope

X58 will actually run in tri still with 4 sticks and the 4th in some odd single channel mode with resource sharing or something.

Wish it actually ran in dual with 4 sticks as performance would be better.

It depends on the configuration you put the sticks in.

Attachment was taken from X58A-UD3R's manual. Id guess that most companies would work the same way as Gigabyte as this seems more like an architecture design than a private one from Gigabyte/eVGA/ASUS/etc.

[SlaveOnDope]

Originally Posted by Nagoshi

It depends on the configuration you put the sticks in.

Attachment was taken from X58A-UD3R's manual. Id guess that most companies would work the same way as Gigabyte as this seems more like an architecture design than a private one from Gigabyte/eVGA/ASUS/etc.

Same as my Asus and EVGA X58 instructed but when you bench the 4 stick dual versus 2 stick dual there is a massive hit in performance.
Cpuz will report tri in a 4 stick config. and windows will allocate the extra stick as hardware reserve.
It may work but havent experienced true 4 stick dual channel on X58's yet.

[LordVampyre]

thanks to you all. Very good information.

[Kain]

Originally Posted by SlaveOnDope

X58 will actually run in tri still with 4 sticks and the 4th in some odd single channel mode with resource sharing or something.

Wish it actually ran in dual with 4 sticks as performance would be better.

Yeah, it still runs in triple channel, just when you start addressing that 4th DIMM, performance gets all wacky.

[AdamV]

I have the new Samsungs installed. A lot more "low profile" than i thought they were going to be which is great. My CPU fans can now sit over top of them.

Hard to take an installed picture
Ignore the dust...my rig is getting a cleaning when my new GPU arrives.

[SlaveOnDope]

Get to clocking them! Curious to see how well they do for you on X58.