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RAM suggestions for K8V
Hey all, hope someone can give me some good advice on this. I built a K8V up
and unfortnuatly need to return the orginal RAM due to the fact that the things wont run any faster than 333mhz (stuff is rated, 433mhz, go figure). Anyway can anyone give me some advice for some fast (2-2-2 if possible) and stable 400mhz (PC3200 or PC3500) suggestions? Thanks Arie |
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:27:13 +0000, SPRITE1001 wrote:
Hey all, hope someone can give me some good advice on this. I built a K8V up and unfortnuatly need to return the orginal RAM due to the fact that the things wont run any faster than 333mhz (stuff is rated, 433mhz, go figure). What brand and model number was the RAM? Anyway can anyone give me some advice for some fast (2-2-2 if possible) and stable 400mhz (PC3200 or PC3500) suggestions? Was it double or single sided? What sockets did you have it in? If you look at pages 2-12 and 2-13 of the manual you will see that some arrangements of RAM will limit the maximum speed you can run it at. -- Ian. EOM |
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I'm running 1 Gb on a K8V board.
I bought a Corsair matched pair memory (2 x 512 Mb). These modules are synched, so they perform better (especially for games). Got one in the blue bank (bank 1, channel 1) and one in the yellow bank closest to the blue (bank 2, channel 2). The third bank (also channel 2) is empty. Greetings, Frank "Ian Hastie" wrote in message news On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:27:13 +0000, SPRITE1001 wrote: Hey all, hope someone can give me some good advice on this. I built a K8V up and unfortnuatly need to return the orginal RAM due to the fact that the things wont run any faster than 333mhz (stuff is rated, 433mhz, go figure). What brand and model number was the RAM? Anyway can anyone give me some advice for some fast (2-2-2 if possible) and stable 400mhz (PC3200 or PC3500) suggestions? Was it double or single sided? What sockets did you have it in? If you look at pages 2-12 and 2-13 of the manual you will see that some arrangements of RAM will limit the maximum speed you can run it at. -- Ian. EOM |
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Yep, Corsair (Pro - funky lights...:-) 2x 512 meg sticks, go to corsairs
website (the ramguy) and also check out mushkins website for details of the oddities of the Athlon 64 and memory timings. You'll have to set up the timings manually for the best results, auto seems to keep things both tame and potentially odd at the same time. Andy "Frank Wijers" wrote in message ... I'm running 1 Gb on a K8V board. I bought a Corsair matched pair memory (2 x 512 Mb). These modules are synched, so they perform better (especially for games). Got one in the blue bank (bank 1, channel 1) and one in the yellow bank closest to the blue (bank 2, channel 2). The third bank (also channel 2) is empty. Greetings, Frank "Ian Hastie" wrote in message news On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:27:13 +0000, SPRITE1001 wrote: Hey all, hope someone can give me some good advice on this. I built a K8V up and unfortnuatly need to return the orginal RAM due to the fact that the things wont run any faster than 333mhz (stuff is rated, 433mhz, go figure). What brand and model number was the RAM? Anyway can anyone give me some advice for some fast (2-2-2 if possible) and stable 400mhz (PC3200 or PC3500) suggestions? Was it double or single sided? What sockets did you have it in? If you look at pages 2-12 and 2-13 of the manual you will see that some arrangements of RAM will limit the maximum speed you can run it at. -- Ian. EOM |
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BTW Sprite, you mentioned earlier you've got a Hitachi/IBM sata drive, are
they ok? quiet? cos they're pretty cheap at the moment. Andy "Andy Howley" wrote in message ... Yep, Corsair (Pro - funky lights...:-) 2x 512 meg sticks, go to corsairs website (the ramguy) and also check out mushkins website for details of the oddities of the Athlon 64 and memory timings. You'll have to set up the timings manually for the best results, auto seems to keep things both tame and potentially odd at the same time. Andy "Frank Wijers" wrote in message ... I'm running 1 Gb on a K8V board. I bought a Corsair matched pair memory (2 x 512 Mb). These modules are synched, so they perform better (especially for games). Got one in the blue bank (bank 1, channel 1) and one in the yellow bank closest to the blue (bank 2, channel 2). The third bank (also channel 2) is empty. Greetings, Frank "Ian Hastie" wrote in message news On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:27:13 +0000, SPRITE1001 wrote: Hey all, hope someone can give me some good advice on this. I built a K8V up and unfortnuatly need to return the orginal RAM due to the fact that the things wont run any faster than 333mhz (stuff is rated, 433mhz, go figure). What brand and model number was the RAM? Anyway can anyone give me some advice for some fast (2-2-2 if possible) and stable 400mhz (PC3200 or PC3500) suggestions? Was it double or single sided? What sockets did you have it in? If you look at pages 2-12 and 2-13 of the manual you will see that some arrangements of RAM will limit the maximum speed you can run it at. -- Ian. EOM |
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Hey guys, thanks for the info. Looks like Corsair is going to be where I"m
going. And now a few replies to those kind enough to help me out. Ian, the ram I was using was Mushkin PC3500 (2x512) lvl II. I tired it with one or both sticks and in different slots (checking out the manual). No change, keep crashing in windows and giving errors in memtest86+ when run in 400mhz. I tried messing with the settings, no good. Andy, the drive runs pretty quite, and its speedy as all hell. After using it I can see a noticable differnce when I used my ata100 drive for testing an OS install. WIndows loaded WAY faster, as in 15 min from format to completed install, utilities like win doctor and defrag run like the wind. I'm seriously thinking about ditching the 120gig ata 100 and picking up a similar SATA. From the benchmarks I saw on.. I belive it was Tom's it beat out the 36gig Raptor in everything but seek time which is when the Raptors 10k rpm showed some use. But considering the cost and the added noise I'd say the Hitachi is the best bet. Again thanks everyone. Hopfuly I'll have the new RAM by next week and be rid of this loaner PNY crap |
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