939 chipsets and 4 sticks of ram

dipstick · Jul 4, 2004, 03:06 PM

Has anyone heard of any problems running four sticks of ram with the new 939 pin mobos?
Thx

grog · Jul 5, 2004, 02:35 AM

The only issue I am aware of is the remapping option is required when going to 4GB or greater.

The ASUS A8V motherboard for example has an option in the BIOS called "DRAM Over 4G Remapping". The default is disabled but should be enabled when 4GB or greater is installed.

The 939 does not suffer from the DDR issues of the 754 socket series. For example, on my ASUS K8V I can not install more than two DDR RAM's then I will be running DDR333 instead of DDR400.

I have not seen any reports of problems with the ASUS A8V and 4GB of DDR RAM. Really the 939 socket has fixed a large gap the 754 had with greater than two sockets of memory.

Now why did you have to bring this up? Now I want a A8V board over my K8V. I will live with 1GB of DDR RAM for now.

So are you going for a 939 based system?

Greg

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Originally posted by dipstick
Has anyone heard of any problems running four sticks of ram with the new 939 pin mobos?
Thx

dipstick · Jul 5, 2004, 01:48 PM

Thanks for the info bud, I guess I have nothing to lose by trying it. I want to run 4x 512mb btw, only a measly 2GB

But yeah, on friday I got me an FX-53 and the Gigabyte K8NSNXP(NF3). I just want to build a nice sys and forget about it for a year or two..
Thanks

Edit- I was going to go with the much cheaper Asus but I hear depending on the revision you cant even change the freakin multis. Didn't want to take the chance lol

dipstick · Jul 10, 2004, 04:07 PM

It worked!!! Four sticks are running in DDR400 mode...yay! I had to enable the 2T command rate but its all cool. Now on to OCing

Zardon · Jul 10, 2004, 04:11 PM

id be interested to hear how you get on with overclocking and 4 sticks of ram, my results have always been poor primarily due to the extra work the system is doing reading between all the modules. hopefully in the coming year we will be seeing affordable 1 gig matched pairs of ram.

dipstick · Jul 10, 2004, 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by Zardon
id be interested to hear how you get on with overclocking and 4 sticks of ram, my results have always been poor primarily due to the extra work the system is doing reading between all the modules. hopefully in the coming year we will be seeing affordable 1 gig matched pairs of ram.

Yeah, its defintely doing more work and I also had to get the thermaltake ram cooling thingy becuase they were all so close lol. But I'm getting like 5k of bandwidth in Sandra so I wont be too dissapointed if it dont OC too well. Its good to have a fully unlocked cpu again, its been a long time since I had this freedom. i'll let you know how it goes after I'm done installing all my appz again

dipstick · Jul 10, 2004, 08:12 PM

okay, some good news and some bad news. Bad news is that I can only OC the mem/bus by only 6MHz lol. Good news, the cpu is killer. I left it at 200htt and bumped the multi to 14x

sucky scores with 8-4-4-3 timings but they blow my A64 score out the door anyways lol

dipstick · Jul 11, 2004, 01:07 PM

WOW!! Check out the difference taking out two sticks has made. 2x512@253MHz and 30MHz slower core-not to mention crap 8-4-4-3 timings.

Zardon · Jul 11, 2004, 01:37 PM

two sticks is definately the best man for sure, nice scores !

dipstick · Jul 11, 2004, 02:06 PM

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Originally posted by Zardon
two sticks is definately the best man for sure, nice scores !

So true, it was a big mistake thinking it would work well(OCed) with four sticks. Oh well, live and learn. But do you know anyone in need of ram? Newegg will hit me with their restocking fee and I'd rather hook someone up then let them bastards take my money and the product back. Its a matched pair(1GB) of OCZ PC4200 Performance series about 3 days old lol

dipstick · Jul 11, 2004, 04:50 PM

Edit- nevermind, 2 sticks it is. This is OCZ memory is amazing!!

Vampyromaniac · Jul 11, 2004, 10:04 PM

7338 wow! that is the highest bandwidth I've ever seen

mine is currently 1892, good for the kids to look up to

dipstick · Jul 12, 2004, 02:01 AM

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Originally posted by Vampyromaniac
7338 wow! that is the highest bandwidth I've ever seen

mine is currently 1892, good for the kids to look up to

hehe, it's fast but I think Zardons P4EE is faster still

What setup are you running, AXP?

Vampyromaniac · Jul 12, 2004, 07:38 AM

yep AXP1800, the RAM's at good ol' 133 MHz

Necrosis · Jul 12, 2004, 01:19 PM

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Originally posted by dipstick
So true, it was a big mistake thinking it would work well(OCed) with four sticks. Oh well, live and learn. But do you know anyone in need of ram? Newegg will hit me with their restocking fee and I'd rather hook someone up then let them bastards take my money and the product back. Its a matched pair(1GB) of OCZ PC4200 Performance series about 3 days old lol

You know what man we have a way of buying things when one of the other needed it prior or later. Too bad I didn't know you had this ram available a couple months ago. You know that Thermal Take cooler your using for your ram I have one of those bran new sitting around doing nothing. Ha, ha damnit!!!

dipstick · Jul 13, 2004, 03:40 PM

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Originally posted by Necrosis
You know what man we have a way of buying things when one of the other needed it prior or later. Too bad I didn't know you had this ram available a couple months ago. You know that Thermal Take cooler your using for your ram I have one of those bran new sitting around doing nothing. Ha, ha damnit!!!

that's life man, it never goes your way when you want it to lol. But why dont you use that ram cooler? It actually works and its not that loud.

Jul 4, 2004, 03:06 PM	#1
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	939 chipsets and 4 sticks of ram Has anyone heard of any problems running four sticks of ram with the new 939 pin mobos? Thx

Jul 5, 2004, 01:48 PM	Thread Starter #3
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Thanks for the info bud, I guess I have nothing to lose by trying it. I want to run 4x 512mb btw, only a measly 2GB But yeah, on friday I got me an FX-53 and the Gigabyte K8NSNXP(NF3). I just want to build a nice sys and forget about it for a year or two.. Thanks Edit- I was going to go with the much cheaper Asus but I hear depending on the revision you cant even change the freakin multis. Didn't want to take the chance lol Last edited by dipstick; Jul 5, 2004 at 02:16 PM.

Jul 10, 2004, 08:12 PM	Thread Starter #7
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	okay, some good news and some bad news. Bad news is that I can only OC the mem/bus by only 6MHz lol. Good news, the cpu is killer. I left it at 200htt and bumped the multi to 14x sucky scores with 8-4-4-3 timings but they blow my A64 score out the door anyways lol Last edited by dipstick; Jul 11, 2004 at 01:06 PM.

Jul 11, 2004, 01:07 PM	Thread Starter #8
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	WOW!! Check out the difference taking out two sticks has made. 2x512@253MHz and 30MHz slower core-not to mention crap 8-4-4-3 timings. Last edited by dipstick; Jul 11, 2004 at 01:37 PM.

Jul 11, 2004, 04:50 PM	Thread Starter #11
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Edit- nevermind, 2 sticks it is. This is OCZ memory is amazing!! Last edited by dipstick; Jul 11, 2004 at 06:02 PM.

Jul 10, 2004, 04:07 PM	Thread Starter #4
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	It worked!!! Four sticks are running in DDR400 mode...yay! I had to enable the 2T command rate but its all cool. Now on to OCing

Jul 10, 2004, 04:11 PM	#5
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	id be interested to hear how you get on with overclocking and 4 sticks of ram, my results have always been poor primarily due to the extra work the system is doing reading between all the modules. hopefully in the coming year we will be seeing affordable 1 gig matched pairs of ram.

Jul 11, 2004, 01:37 PM	#9
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	two sticks is definately the best man for sure, nice scores !

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Vampyromaniac confutatis maledictis Join Date: May 2002 Location: somewhere dark Posts: 5,974 Rep Power: 77 System Specs	yep AXP1800, the RAM's at good ol' 133 MHz __________________ *Digitalis 3.3* Athlon 64 3000 // ASUS K8V SE Deluxe // 1024MB PC3200 (2-2-2-10 1T) ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro // 20" Dell 2005FPW (DVI) M-Audio Revo 7.1 + Philips Acoustic Edge // Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 320/16 Western Digital WD3200KS + 120/8 Seagate 7200.7 NEC ND-3550A 16x DVD±RW + Lite-On 52x24x CD-RW Antec Sonata case // 480W Antec TruePower personal bests \|\| Aq'3: 46796 \| 3D'01: 20461 \| 3D'03: 6336 \| 3D'05: 2677 \| PC'04: 4605 \| PC'02: 7691,9092,1250