mentalindustrie Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledohttp://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?...N82E16819103546Can anybody confirm that this cpu does not suffer the RAM problem when using 4 sticks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai3g_Eclipse Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 I wouldn't worry about the X2 series supporting 4 sticks of RAM. What your real concern should be is the motherboard itself. Some motherboards may require a BIOS upgrade in order to be compatible wiht X2 processors, so have another computer and a floppy drive ready. By the way, you will be forced to run the memory at 2T command rate and your bus speed will drop to 166 MHz for running 4 memory slots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mentalindustrie Posted November 8, 2005 Author Share Posted November 8, 2005 (edited) By the way, you will be forced to run the memory at 2T command rate and your bus speed will drop to 166 MHz for running 4 memory slots.thats what i am wanting to know. does the above quote hold true with the new X2 i read somewhere that it was fine but i cant find it anymore.I have ASUS A8V - 1014 bios (the newest non beta) so theres no issue there. it will detect the chip no probsbut i plan on having2 slots with 5122 slots with 1024 of RAMso i will have 3072 RAM Edited November 8, 2005 by mentalindustrie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai3g_Eclipse Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Yeah, you're going to be running 2T with that configuration. I believe if you lose one of those 512MB sticks, you can avoid running in 2T and keep the 200MHz FSB. I would set it up like this:2x 1GB module1x 512MB moduleThat should work. If you have the time to mess around, you can try runnning all 4 sticks in single channel mode and see if you can avoid the 2T and 166 FSB limit, but I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 if u want to run 1t with 4 sticks then you could get the new dfi crossfire board. they somehow did it! but it will cost you and no sataII support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mentalindustrie Posted November 8, 2005 Author Share Posted November 8, 2005 thanks ripken2044 sticks the the extra keyword google wantedit looks like it will run at 200MHz FSB which is good.but it will change to 2T instead of 1T but looks like you only lose 1-2% performance, which is easily outweighed by not having to do pagefile reads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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