Unable to use Crucial Ballistic RAM on Rampage III Gene Mobo

[ltt_Neoo]

Good day and sorry already if my question is unclear.

 

I have an ASUS Rampage III Gene motherboard with 12gigs of Kingston KVR1333D3N9K3/6G (2 sets of 3x2gb).

I just bought 16gb of Crucial Ballistix LP BLT4G3D1608ET3LXO.16FED2 (4x4gb).

 

The Kingston ram is triple-channel and the Crucial ram is double-channel is what I know.

The Kingston ram is 1.5V and the Crucial ram is 1.35V is what I know.

 

I cannot succeed to install and use the Crucial memory.

The PC won't even POST.

 

What I tried/did:

- Cleared CMOS

- Tried one stick in A1

- Tried another stick in A1

- Tried a stick in A1 and B1

- Tried a stick in A1, B1 and C1

- Tried a stick in A1, A2, B1 and C1

 

No succes, I googled about this and the intel is sketchy, confusing or contradictory imo.

 

So can anyone please either tell me this ram won't work on a R3G mobo or help/explain me how to do this.

 

 

[Bigman397]

That is a triple channel motherboard. to use the new ram you would have to leave 1 out and do 3 sticks of 4.. which gets you right back to 12gb.

 

Populate the red slots first, then the black slots.

 

Edit: Also, what CPU do you have in this thing? Its possible it may not like 1600mhz native ram at all, since this is an early DDR3 chipset as opposed to the x79 which is a later ddr3 (1066 to 1333 versus 1600 to 1866)

[Bigman397]

DIMM_A2 - Populate 4th

DIMM_A1 - *Populate 1st *

DIMM_B2 - Populate 5th

DIMM_B1 - *Populate 2nd*

DIMM_C2 - Populate 6th

DIMM_C1 - *Populate 3rd*

[Bigman397]

Attached is the QVL - The ram you got is too new sadly, it runs at too high of a base frequency.

most of the QVL ram above 1333 is XMP or other overlocked ram running higher voltage than stock.

 

Yours, by comparison, is running LOWER voltage - this is a hallmark of later DDR3 controllers being able to run PC3L at normal speeds.

R3G MemQVL20100708.pdf