Looking for a little bit of help and advice if possible.
I've just upgraded my motherboard today to an MSI 990FXA-GD65 as part of my gradual upgrade plan, due to not being able to afford a new processor at present I plugged in my AMD Athlon X4-620 processor.
In Mid June of 2013 I purchased an 8GB set of Dual Channel XMS3-1600mhz memory with the vision of actually purchasing the above motherboard a month after, however I unfortunately lost one of my sources of income and was not able to get the motherboard. Due to this the memory has been sitting on a shelf ever since, I didn't think to plug it into my old motherboard as it was only rated for 1333mhz memory so being naive I didn't think it would work.
So, back to the new motherboard and building it up I unpacked the un-opened 8GB pack and slotted them into the memory slots. On powering up the PC the fans started to spin and the motherboard emitted a series of beeps, after reading up on the internet what this could mean I swapped the positions of the memory but got the same thing. I then tried the memory one at a time in the first slot, 1 card gave the series of beeps the other didn't beep but the computer still didn't boot into POST.
After cursing at the computer for a while a grabbed my old 1333mhz chips and plugged them in, bang, the computer booted into the BIOS screen and allowed me to set the new motherboard up and then successfully booted into Windows 8.1.
Now, here is where I need some help, the AMD X4-620 only has a 1333mhz memory controller but it is my understanding that the memory should still work but run at the lower speed.
Is this assumption correct and I have unfortunately been sitting this past year on a dud set of Memory Chips or have I got it completely wrong and the memory will not work with the current processor?
Thanks in advance.
Nathan
I've just upgraded my motherboard today to an MSI 990FXA-GD65 as part of my gradual upgrade plan, due to not being able to afford a new processor at present I plugged in my AMD Athlon X4-620 processor.
In Mid June of 2013 I purchased an 8GB set of Dual Channel XMS3-1600mhz memory with the vision of actually purchasing the above motherboard a month after, however I unfortunately lost one of my sources of income and was not able to get the motherboard. Due to this the memory has been sitting on a shelf ever since, I didn't think to plug it into my old motherboard as it was only rated for 1333mhz memory so being naive I didn't think it would work.
So, back to the new motherboard and building it up I unpacked the un-opened 8GB pack and slotted them into the memory slots. On powering up the PC the fans started to spin and the motherboard emitted a series of beeps, after reading up on the internet what this could mean I swapped the positions of the memory but got the same thing. I then tried the memory one at a time in the first slot, 1 card gave the series of beeps the other didn't beep but the computer still didn't boot into POST.
After cursing at the computer for a while a grabbed my old 1333mhz chips and plugged them in, bang, the computer booted into the BIOS screen and allowed me to set the new motherboard up and then successfully booted into Windows 8.1.
Now, here is where I need some help, the AMD X4-620 only has a 1333mhz memory controller but it is my understanding that the memory should still work but run at the lower speed.
Is this assumption correct and I have unfortunately been sitting this past year on a dud set of Memory Chips or have I got it completely wrong and the memory will not work with the current processor?
Thanks in advance.
Nathan
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