Perhaps because other ' developed ' countries arent quite as puzzling as USA ? A lot of things Americans take as normal make people who havnt grown up in that environment go ' wait WHAT ? '<| sep |> But you know about the couch while they don ' t . <| sep |> Do it ya self . Gonna help you a great deal . <| sep |> They dead . <| sep |> Oh , lookie there I forget where I comment , lol <| sep |> Oh , that stupid board . I don ' t know why they released that thing . Yes , that is officially a DDR 3 board however , it only supports a specific subset of DDR 3 RAM called DDR 3 L which means that even if you had old RAM from another system , you would need to buy more , anyway . So I ' m a bit hazy on what the issue is you already HAVE that board , with some standard DDR 3 RAM installed ? In that case , you need to replace it with DDR 3 L because yes , there is a risk to your components . If you ' re buying a new system , don ' t buy that board at all , buy one that uses DDR 4 .