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From: Igor on 28 Jun 2008 00:06
How many people follow their motherboard's QVL (Qualified Vendor List)
when they're picking out RAM for their PC?

I'm considering a motherboard but can't find any of the brands/models
recommended in its QVL. How important is it that I follow the QVL?
From: John Doe on 28 Jun 2008 00:53
Igor <someone(a)somewhere.org> wrote:

> How many people follow their motherboard's QVL (Qualified Vendor
> List) when they're picking out RAM for their PC?
>
> I'm considering a motherboard but can't find any of the
> brands/models recommended in its QVL. How important is it that I
> follow the QVL?

Those lists are probably a small percentage of what the mainboard can
use.

Read reviews about your mainboard as it relates to RAM.

Read reviews about the RAM you are interested in.

Buy the type of RAM your mainboard supports.

Good luck.






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From: William on 28 Jun 2008 02:13

"Igor" <someone(a)somewhere.org> wrote in message
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> How many people follow their motherboard's QVL (Qualified Vendor List)
> when they're picking out RAM for their PC?
>
> I'm considering a motherboard but can't find any of the brands/models
> recommended in its QVL. How important is it that I follow the QVL?

Igor:

Many of the RAM manufacturers have their own QVL lists for the mobo's they
support. When I was looking for some fast ram for my mobo I went to
Crucial's web site and found what ram they guaranteed would support my mobo
for the speeds I wanted to run the ram at. These lists are usually updated
more often and more extensive than the QVL lists put out by the mobo
manufacturer.

I was having some strange problems with the ram I had in my mobo at the time
and I wanted to be sure I hade the proper ram for this mobo when I was
updating to 4 gig. And yes, this is very important for assuring good
performance from you mobo and ram, especially if you intend to do any over
clocking in the future.

William


From: larry moe 'n curly on 28 Jun 2008 02:39


Igor wrote:

> How many people follow their motherboard's QVL (Qualified Vendor List)
> when they're picking out RAM for their PC?
>
> I'm considering a motherboard but can't find any of the brands/models
> recommended in its QVL. How important is it that I follow the QVL?

Not much, because only a few manufacturers produce all the actual RAM
chips used on modules, and so many modules are made with their
untested (UTT) chips that it's a lot more important to buy modules
that aren't defective (and it takes a couple of days to verify that,
by using both Gold Memory and either MemTest+ or MemTest86).
Inclusion in a QVL isn't a good indication of high quality because
even brands like Kingston and Mushkin are listed, and they haven't
been particularly reliable for me. It's safest to buy modules whose
chips have their manufacturer's full part number visible on them,
something you can Google for the complete specs, because that means
the modules were made with prime quality chips. In the US that pretty
much limits us to Crucial/Micron modules, and then only those models
without heatsinks.
From: Andy Burns on 28 Jun 2008 03:12
On 28/06/2008 05:06, Igor wrote:

> How many people follow their motherboard's QVL (Qualified Vendor List)
> when they're picking out RAM for their PC?

I recently purchased an ASUS P5E-WS-PRO, but the motherboard claims to
support 1066MHz DDR2 but the QVL only lists 667MHz and 800MHz parts, so
I went ahead and bought some Corsair 1066MHz.

I had immediate RAM problems, and of course the intiial answer from ASUS
was "not on the QVL mate, tough!" but it turned out to be a board that
was about to die for other reasons anyway, when it was RMAed the
replacement hummed along just fine with the same memory, even with the
same BIOS version and settings.

So the answer depends on what level of security blanket you want I guess.

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