Ram and Asus P5W DH - tight fit!

Dodge777 · 2 Sep 2006 at 00:44

Hi all,

Currently building a new system. Am using a Scythe Ninja, which is pretty big as you all know. Anyways, the fan encroaches on the first ram slot - there's 4 slots on that mobo. So in order to fit my two sticks of ram in dual channel, I have to use the second channel, i.e. slots 2 and 4 as opposed to 1 and 3. Will this make any difference to performance whatsoever?

Thanks.

Minstadave · 2 Sep 2006 at 09:57

As long as its running in dual channel you're fine

Datamonkey · 2 Sep 2006 at 15:13

tis a tight fit but i have exactly the same combo but with 4 x 1gb sticks lol

can be done.

But as said as long as it boots up displaying dual channel your fine.

BeelzebubUK · 3 Sep 2006 at 23:10

Datamonkey said:
tis a tight fit but i have exactly the same combo but with 4 x 1gb sticks lol

can be done.

But as said as long as it boots up displaying dual channel your fine.

How are you finding 4GB on that board as I've ordered 4GB for mine as well. Did you get that much for anything specific or just because you could like me

Any difference in games as thats what mine will mainly be used for and have you been doing any overclocking because i got the impression that 4 sticks would make it more difficult to get a good clock.

Thanks.

PikKOn · 4 Sep 2006 at 09:48

Hey, hey, hey stop the press! Are you saying *** Scyhthe Ninja can't fit on the ASUS board? And if it does it would be difficult or not possible to fit 4GB?

If thats the case them I would be a very unhappy bunny :mad:

[timko] · 4 Sep 2006 at 11:28

PikKOn said:
Hey, hey, hey stop the press! Are you saying *** Scyhthe Ninja can't fit on the ASUS board? And if it does it would be difficult or not possible to fit 4GB?

See this...

Datamonkey said:
tis a tight fit but i have exactly the same combo but with 4 x 1gb sticks

mc_bob · 4 Sep 2006 at 11:43

Does your ram have heatsinks on them?
Try removing them and fitting it.

Heatsinks on Ram doesn't affect the temperature as long is there a movement of air on the RAM anyway.

Losing the Heatsinks may let them fit in the slots.

MC_Bob

iViper · 4 Sep 2006 at 12:39

Just use the clips and move the fan up a bit. It does work.

matt1 · 4 Sep 2006 at 15:03

Dodge777 said:
Hi all,

Currently building a new system. Am using a Scythe Ninja, which is pretty big as you all know. Anyways, the fan encroaches on the first ram slot - there's 4 slots on that mobo. So in order to fit my two sticks of ram in dual channel, I have to use the second channel, i.e. slots 2 and 4 as opposed to 1 and 3. Will this make any difference to performance whatsoever?

Thanks.

I'm using 1, 3 fine with exactly the same setup