l3illY wrote:Also...n00b question...what is "TIM"?
Thermal Interface Material - thermal paste or a thermal pad.
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l3illY wrote:Also...n00b question...what is "TIM"?
ronch wrote:@Billy - What brand of RAM are you using? I'm using DDR3-1866 from G.Skill. Works flawlessly, although by default the 990FXA-GD65 wants to run the sticks at DDR3-1600 spec rather than -1866. I also noticed that the SPD info indicates the max bandwidth to be DDR3-1600. I emailed G.Skill about it and got a prompt reply saying that it's only spec'd as DDR3-1600 in the SPD because -1866 isn't really an official JEDEC-defined spec and some boards will not boot if DDR3-1866 RAM is plugged. Not sure I believe it, but heck, it's labeled as DDR3-1866 and runs at 1866MHz just fine. I just have to manually set it in the BIOS. G.Skill gets my respect. You should put it on your white list.
ronch wrote:@Billy - What brand of RAM are you using?
Ryu Connor wrote:The last time I used an MSI product was back in the early half of the 2000s. It is the last MSI product I purchased. Not due to capacitor plague problems (the board in question was covered in Rubycon caps), but because they had a constant string of weird BIOS related issues. None of them serious, but all of them irritating. The firmware of a motherboard is a huge deal and I'm just not comfortable that MSI puts the resources they should into that area of their products.