Installation 

Installation was very straight forward. Just make sure you line up the "insertion notches"  accordingly, and just insert the modules like you normally would, holding them by the edges.

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Appearance wise, DDR3 ram looks virtually identical to DDR2. They uses the same number of pins as DDR2, a total of 240-pins. However, the "insertion notch"  is located in a different position, so that you can easily identify between the two.

        

Test Setup

BIOS Settings

This part is very important. Running the memory at the wrong timings, speed and voltage can damage your memory modules and also reduce the performance of your whole system. So do be very careful.

If you are unsure what divider/ratio to use or what memory timings to set ... it's best to leave all memory settings to SPD or AUTO. But in our tests,  we used manual settings, and made sure that we selected DRAM frequency to DDR3-1066 with memory timings of 7-7-7-20.

Voltage adjustments are needed for overclocking ... again if you do not plan to overclock, I recommend that you leave this setting alone. During our overclocking tests we increased the voltage to 1.75v.