{"id":1587,"date":"2009-09-28T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2009-09-28T13:01:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T17:01:35","slug":"what-will-happen-if-i-install-more-ram-than-specified-in-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/what-will-happen-if-i-install-more-ram-than-specified-in-manual\/","title":{"rendered":"What will happen if I install more RAM than specified in manual?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I just installed a new motherboard, MSI K9N Neo V3 with an Athlon X2 4400+. I bought a 2GB stick of RAM , with the intention of ordering 3 more when I have the extra money, for a total of 8GB. The problem is, in the manual for this board, it said that the maximum RAM is 4GB. So is there a chance it will work with more than 4?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The manufacturers manual is a snapshot in time, it only reflects what the manufacturer tested, when the manual was being written. They are rarely updated, unless a new version of the computer \/ motherboard \/ etc comes out.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take the confusion out of the issue. What does Crucial or Kingston say about the memory capacity of the computer?  You know, the people that manufacturer and sell memory for a living&#8230;Kingston &amp; Crucial are willing to test with newer memory chipsets, etc. So if they say your model will accept more, then it should work.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find the board on Crucial, but Kingston states:<\/p>\n<p>Standard Memory: 0 MB (Removable)<br \/>\n<strong>Maximum Memory: 8 GB<br \/>\n<\/strong>Expansion: 4 Sockets<\/p>\n<p>CPU &amp; ChipSet: AMD Athlon 64 (AM2) Nvidia nForce 560 AMD Athlon 64 X2 (AM2) Nvidia nForce 560 AMD Sempron (AM2) Nvidia nForce 560<\/p>\n<p>Bus Architecture: PCI; PCI Express; USB<br \/>\nMfgr&#8217;s System P\/N&#8217;s: N\/A<\/p>\n<p>Comments MODULES MUST BE ORDERED AND INSTALLED IN PAIRS for Dual Channel mode. Kingston offers &#8220;K2&#8221; Kit part numbers for Dual Channel mode. \u00c2\u00a0If 4GB is installed, the recognized memory may be reduced to 3.5GB or less (depending on system configuration and memory allocation).<br \/>\nMaximum configurations require 64-bit operating system. \u00c2\u00a0AMD Sempron processors support DDR2-533 and DDR2-667 memory only. DDR2-800 modules are not supported with this processor.<br \/>\nAt 1066MHz, this system supports up to two single rank modules ONLY. DDR2-1066 is supported by AM2+ CPUs only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just installed a new motherboard, MSI K9N Neo V3 with an Athlon X2 4400+. I bought a 2GB stick of RAM , with the intention of ordering 3 more when I have the extra money, for a total of 8GB. The problem is, in the manual for this board, it said that the maximum <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/what-will-happen-if-i-install-more-ram-than-specified-in-manual\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->