1Gb 16 chip query

pinkaardvark · 14 Feb 2006 at 11:17

I just bought a new Asus A8N-SLi Premium and 4400x2 together with 4 1Gb OCUK Value ram sticks. Now from reading the manual for the mobo it says it doesn't support 16 chip ie 8 chip dual sided DDR sticks. Which the Value ram is

I haven't tried it yet but is this a guaranteed no go? If so I won't open the other pair of modules and will just send them directly back to ocuk. I went for the value stuff as I have no intention of clocking this machine so didn't need anything fancy. I also note that very few of the sales descriptions on OCUk actually specify how many chips are on the module???

pinkaardvark · 14 Feb 2006 at 11:28

p.s If you think I'm being a little greedy with 4Gb, it's because I want to run XP64 and use this machine for Development work, and things like Visual Studio 2005 are real memory munchers.

smids · 14 Feb 2006 at 11:37

Odd.... might have been worthwhile to get the OCZ 4GB dual channel 2x2GB kit though (~£300). I should think it would work - I would have thought it depended more on the on die memory controller rather than the board itself which should be the same as any other nF4 board. I mean, people run dual channel 2GB kits on this forum with that RAM so I see no problem tbh.

pinkaardvark · 14 Feb 2006 at 11:40

Ok m8, I will try it with 2Gb first using the ram I have opened. The manual said that it was due to the cpu not the motherboard. Was this a problem with earlier x64 chips that may now have been corrected?

smids · 14 Feb 2006 at 11:45

Hmm, might have been. How long ago was that manual produced?

One thing - IIRC, the older x64's like the Winchester and NewCastle could not run 4 sticks @ 400mhz 1T, instead running at 333Mhz 2T. The new revision cores can run 4 sticks @ DDR400 2T but single sided chip @ DDR400 1T. Maybe that is what they were getting at with the single sided/double sided thing.

It should work with 4 sticks, though you will only run at a command rate of DDR400 2T - I doubt that will make much difference to you though as you purely need RAM and not uber performance.