Will this memory be compatible with my pc?

[Denis_Twin]

Hi, so I was about to get a new memory for my pc since my own are kinda faulty, so I have a dell precision t3600 (more details on my profile),

I ordered an:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009V50T7O/?tag=tec06d-20

Will this ram be compatible for my PC?

I use my PC for gaming as well.

,Thanks

[Senzelian]

Yup, will be fine
As long as you stay on DDR3 it should work. When you switch out the RAM you might have to enable XMP in your motherboard BIOS. It's not needed, but also not a bad idea and really easy to do.

[Nena Trinity]

Very good 1600MHz RAM! And most likely yes unless its a cheap mobo that only can do 1333MHz...

[Denis_Twin]

37 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

Yup, will be fine
As long as you stay on DDR3 it should work. When you switch out the RAM you might have to enable XMP in your motherboard BIOS. It's not needed, but also not a bad idea and really easy to do.

Um, are you sure? some said on other forums (which are partially out of topic so I had to start a seperate thread)

that because its not in the dell compatibility list it will not work, so I was curious to ask here. It is a dell workstation but I want to use it for games as well, and am really curious about compatibility. It uses a xeon e5-1620 3.6ghz. Also it doesnt have the XMP in bios, it is not there.

36 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

Very good 1600MHz RAM! And most likely yes unless its a cheap mobo that only can do 1333MHz...

No its actually a workstation desktop, if you do some search you will understand.

[Nena Trinity]

Just now, TwinDenis said:

Um, are you sure? some said on other forums (which are partially out of topic so I had to start a seperate thread)

that because its not in the dell compatibility list it will not work, so I was curious to ask here. It is a dell workstation but I want to use it for games as well, and am really curious about compatibility. It uses a xeon e5-1620 3.6ghz.

No its actually a workstation desktop, if you do some search you will understand.

Unless it need ECC you are good!

[Denis_Twin]

Just now, Nena360 said:

Unless it need ECC you are good!

It supports both ECC and non-ecc it says, can you check the sheet for me? I just dont want to pay 100+ bucks for nothing.

[Senzelian]

7 hours ago, TwinDenis said:

Um, are you sure? some said on other forums (which are partially out of topic so I had to start a seperate thread)

that because its not in the dell compatibility list it will not work, so I was curious to ask here. It is a dell workstation but I want to use it for games as well, and am really curious about compatibility. It uses a xeon e5-1620 3.6ghz. Also it doesnt have the XMP in bios, it is not there.

No its actually a workstation desktop, if you do some search you will understand.

Don't wory,  it will work. Even if it doesn't, just send it back. 

 

[Denis_Twin]

5 hours ago, Senzelian said:

Don't wory,  it will work. Even if it doesn't, just send it back. 

 

I say it because I cannot send it back because it is overseas. And in the country I live in it will cost almost half that amount that I spend buying it, so I can cancel the order now if it is not going to work.

What should I look for when buying ram?

Can you check my system compatibility for me to see if the trident ram sticks are compatible?

,thanks

[Senzelian]

5 minutes ago, TwinDenis said:

I say it because I cannot send it back because it is overseas. And in the country I live in it will cost almost half that amount that I spend buying it, so I can cancel the order now if it is not going to work.

What should I look for when buying ram?

Can you check my system compatibility for me to see if the trident ram sticks are compatible?

,thanks

There is nothing to check. You used DDR3 RAM before,  so you can use any other DDR3 Ram aswell. Only EEC and voltage can be a problem in certain systems like notebooks or workstations. But that doesn't apply to your system at all. 

[Denis_Twin]

43 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

There is nothing to check. You used DDR3 RAM before,  so you can use any other DDR3 Ram aswell. Only EEC and voltage can be a problem in certain systems like notebooks or workstations. But that doesn't apply to your system at all. 

So what you say is that my workstation is more flexible to upgrades than other standard workstations that only use ECC so I would not face a problem with that.

How about the timings? Cas7 and that I use 2 channels instead of 4?

Thanks by the way.

[Senzelian]

7 minutes ago, TwinDenis said:

So what you say is that my workstation is more flexible to upgrades than other standard workstations that only use ECC so I would not face a problem with that.

How about the timings? Cas7 and that I use 2 channels instead of 4?

Thanks by the way.

No that is not what I am saying.
Timings and channels don't matter.

[Denis_Twin]

12 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

No that is not what I am saying.
Timings and channels don't matter.

I do not really get it, how is my PC able to make them work?

Well, in short will they work?

I just don't want to take any risks here.

[Senzelian]

1 minute ago, TwinDenis said:

I do not really get it, how is my PC able to make them work?

Well, in short will they work?

I just don't want to take any risks here.

Why would your PC not be able to make them work? There is no reason for it.
Your motherboard has like any other motherboard a compatibility range for RAM and usually it looks something like this:

4x DDR3 DIMM, dual PC3-24000U/DDR3-3000 (OC) - (MSI Z97-G43)

Your motherboard only needs to support the DDR3 standard to make the RAM work, which it does cause you are already running DDR3 RAM.
The speed doesn't matter, because first of all you can adjust the speed anways and second of all you ordered 1600Mhz RAM, which is the Intel standard for DDR3 RAM, which is supported by all Xeon and Intel Core platforms.

[Denis_Twin]

10 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

Why would your PC not be able to make them work? There is no reason for it.
Your motherboard has like any other motherboard a compatibility range for RAM and usually it looks something like this:

4x DDR3 DIMM, dual PC3-24000U/DDR3-3000 (OC) - (MSI Z97-G43)

Your motherboard only needs to support the DDR3 standard to make the RAM work, which it does cause you are already running DDR3 RAM.
The speed doesn't matter, because first of all you can adjust the speed anways and second of all you ordered 1600Mhz RAM, which is the Intel standard for DDR3 RAM, which is supported by all Xeon and Intel Core platforms.

Okay thanks,

Also a quick question which bothers be about the ram, in my bios I cannot adjust the timings or anything I was suggested to change them in a specific way, is there a way to do it? I only have Dell Bios and Intel AMT Bios, but non of them has an option for configuring my Ram.

Thanks.

[Senzelian]

1 minute ago, TwinDenis said:

Okay thanks, I would like the full answer so I can mark it as solution if you dont mind.

Also a quick question which bothers be about the ram, in my bios I cannot adjust the timings or anything I was suggested to change them in a specific way, is there a way to do it? I only have Dell Bios and Intel AMT Bios, but non of them has an option for configuring my Ram.

Thanks.

There is probably a way to do this, but I don't know how.
Dell doesn't want you to change anything in their BIOS.

[Denis_Twin]

Just now, Senzelian said:

There is probably a way to do this, but I don't know how.
Dell doesn't want you to change anything in their BIOS.

Okay I will make another thread for this, thanks.

[Nena Trinity]

18 hours ago, TwinDenis said:

It supports both ECC and non-ecc it says, can you check the sheet for me? I just dont want to pay 100+ bucks for nothing.

If it support both then it should be fine, then yo ujust need ot make sure MHz match and pins(DDR3) but if you wanna double check try the motherboard makers homepage and see supported RAM kits!

[Denis_Twin]

22 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

If it support both then it should be fine, then yo ujust need ot make sure MHz match and pins(DDR3) but if you wanna double check try the motherboard makers homepage and see supported RAM kits!

They do not have a compatibility list, they only have brand recommendation list.

I am disappointed.

The ram I want to buy is DDR3 as well as the Board, it supports up to 1600mhz same as the new ram kit, as of CAS latency I did not find something specific on the dell sheet.

The sheet states that it is both ecc and non-ecc so I hope it will support this ram module kit which is non-ecc which makes it perfect for gaming if I am not mistaken.

[Nena Trinity]

30 minutes ago, TwinDenis said:

They do not have a compatibility list, they only have brand recommendation list.

I am disappointed.

The ram I want to buy is DDR3 as well as the Board, it supports up to 1600mhz same as the new ram kit, as of CAS latency I did not find something specific on the dell sheet.

The sheet states that it is both ecc and non-ecc so I hope it will support this ram module kit which is non-ecc which makes it perfect for gaming if I am not mistaken.

It should work its very unlikely it wont its like 99% chance it wont fail!