Corsair & AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

[DeanoUK]

Hello, I am new here and was advised to ask my question regarding ram on here.
I have a Gigabyte GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF Motherboard with an AMD Phenom II X6 1100T CPU & 16 GB of Patriot DDR3 PC3-10700 (667 MHz). I want to upgrade my memory to 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro Dual Channel DDR3 2400MHz PC3-19200 DIMM.
My question is will the new corsair ram be compatible with my CPU, I dont want to waste my money on better memory if the patriot ram is just as good. I understand that some memory will not run at its full potential with old CPUs.
Its an old CPU which i have had for about 5 years now but still works fine.

Here is a benchmark of my PC:
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 28 °C
Thuban 45nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 669MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF (CPU 1) 34 °C
Graphics
SA300/SA350 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (Undefined) 33 °C
Storage
1863GB Seagate ST2000LX 001-1RG174 SATA Disk Device (SATA) 27 °C
3726GB Seagate ST4000DX 001-1CE168 SATA Disk Device (SATA) 22 °C
1863GB SAMSUNG HD204UI USB Device (USB (SATA)) 29 °C
931GB SAMSUNG HD103SI USB Device (USB (SATA)) 28 °C
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10 EADS-11M2B2 USB Device (USB (SATA)) 33 °C
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10 EARX-00PASB0 USB Device (USB (SATA)) 29 °C
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223F
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224DB
Audio
NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM)

 

[marco.da.man]

Hello, I am new here and was advised to ask my question regarding ram on here.
I have a Gigabyte GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF Motherboard with an AMD Phenom II X6 1100T CPU & 16 GB of Patriot DDR3 PC3-10700 (667 MHz). I want to upgrade my memory to 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro Dual Channel DDR3 2400MHz PC3-19200 DIMM.
My question is will the new corsair ram be compatible with my CPU, I dont want to waste my money on better memory if the patriot ram is just as good. I understand that some memory will not run at its full potential with old CPUs.
Its an old CPU which i have had for about 5 years now but still works fine.

i hope this helps this memory your board will take

1. 4 x DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 64 GB of system memory
   * Due to a Windows 32-bit operating system limitation, when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory size displayed will be less than the size of the physical memory installed.
2. Dual channel memory architecture
3. Support for DDR3 2000(O.C.)/1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules
   * To support a DDR3 1866 MHz (and above) memory, you must install an AM3+ CPU first.
4. Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules

so i theory the 2400mhz will be overkill

 

[Plec]

I have a Gigabyte GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF Motherboard with an AMD Phenom II X6 1100T CPU & 16 GB of Patriot DDR3 PC3-10700 (667 MHz). I want to upgrade my memory to 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro Dual Channel DDR3 2400MHz PC3-19200 DIMM.

Your present DDR3 PC3-10700 memory will be running at 1333MHz in dual channel mode if set up correctly - (2 x 667Mhz - Double Data Rate).

The gains of adding memory, that may only hit 1866Mhz, would be negligible. And would be an expensive upgrade for end of line architecture and for little reward.

What are you using your system for and what speed gains were you hoping to achieve with the upgrade?

 

[DeanoUK]

Your present DDR3 PC3-10700 memory will be running at 1333MHz in dual channel mode if set up correctly - (2 x 667Mhz - Double Data Rate).

The gains of adding memory, that may only hit 1866Mhz, would be negligible. And would be an expensive upgrade for end of line architecture and for little reward.

What are you using your system for and what speed gains were you hoping to achieve with the upgrade?

I use it for Gaming and day to day stuff. Its a 64bit op system not 32. I thought maybe if i upgraded the old ram it may run better. Some games take ages to load. GTA 5 takes about 5 minutes to load. I was also thinking of changing the AM3 CPU to something more modern as i was told the Phenom ll was really old but it runs at 3.3GHZ