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    Question 8GB DIMM on an "old" P55 Motherboard?

    Hello folks.

    I'd be interested to hear anyone's opinions on the chances of successfully running 2 x 8GB DIMMs (16GB total) on an "old" P55 motherboard. (I have not updated to a Z77 board.)

    The board's manual specifies a max of 4 x 4GB DIMMs (16GB total), however, I believe it was published at a time when 8GB DIMMs were not the norm.

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    Mobo: EVGA P55 Classified 200
    CPU: Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz [BX80616I3530]
    RAM would be: 16GB (2x8) Corsair Vengeance Low Profile -- DDR3, Dual Channel, PC3-12800 (1600) -- 1.5V XMP -- CAS 9-9-9-24 -- [CML16GX3M2A1600C9]


    If it is not going to work, I'll go with a 4x4GB solution.

    Any opinions are much appreciated!

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    Re: 8GB DIMM on an "old" P55 Motherboard?

    I've seen boards work with larger than stated modules, but I'd follow the manual, unless you want to spend £100 on an experiment. 16GB is stated as the absolute max anyway and those are very rarely wrong, so you lose nothing by populating all slots as it's very, very unlikely to support 32GB the next realistic step up.

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    Re: 8GB DIMM on an "old" P55 Motherboard?

    Thanks for the tip chuck -- much appreciated.

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    Re: 8GB DIMM on an "old" P55 Motherboard?

    I know it will handle 2x 8GB modules, but I'm uncertain about 32GB all together. It wouldn't matter too much if you tried to go with 32GB anyway because there are fewer OSes which even allow that much memory to begin with. But yeah, go for it. If it doesn't work, you have memory for another build.

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