RAM Question

[GeneralBones]

Okay so I've looked this up and I've seen no clear answer because people are pretty much 50-50 on this and there are no videos on YouTube. Is "AMD RAM" compatible with Intel boards and vise versa, given that the RAM specs match (DDR3-XXXX with a board/processor that requires said RAM)?

[Mark77]

Yeah you can use AMD-branded RAM on Intel-CPU-containing motherboards and vice versa if the other specs are otherwise met. 

[DXMember]

DDR3 is a standard that both Intel and AMD implement

any brand of DDR3 memory is compatible with any brand of CPU that has a DDR3 memory controller and any brand of motherboard that provides DDR3 slots

[don_svetlio]

13 minutes ago, GeneralBones said:

Okay so I've looked this up and I've seen no clear answer because people are pretty much 50-50 on this and there are no videos on YouTube. Is "AMD RAM" compatible with Intel boards and vise versa, given that the RAM specs match (DDR3-XXXX with a board/processor that requires said RAM)?

Of course you can. RAM is RAM, be it AMD, Intel or Potato branded. Anyone who claims otherwise is either trolling you or extremely ignorant.

[mariushm]

True. DDR3 memory sticks should be compatible with any processor, including AMD and Intel.

 

In the past, with DDR2, there were some Intel chipsets (in those times the memory controller was still in the chipset) which supported only some types of DDR2 ram chips, while AMD was tolerating a wider variety of ram chips.

 

For example, because this memory stick has 16 x 512 mbit memory chips (16x512 = 8192 mbit, or 1024 MB or 1GB) and since the ddr2 bus is 64 bit wide, it means each memory chips was configured as 512 mbit x 4 bit, which if I remember correctly was something Intel chipsets didn't like ... they wanted only 8 bit addressing... so in theory this ddr2 memory is only recommended for AMD systems.  

[GeneralBones]

Okay I just wanted to make sure before I wasted a few bucks on RAM. I really wanted to believe that it was for marketing purposes and such so thanks alot guys

[mlalcevski]

Rule #1 of RAM. If it fits it sits. Any RAM of the same type as the motherboard (DDR3 with DDR3) will work.