Asus 865/875 with 4 Corsair Dimms

Right now i'm debating the IC7-G and the P4C800-E

Both are great boards.. except for one thing.. all the Asus boards do not support more than 2 Corsair Dimms. Why is this? I plan to have 1GB (2x512mb) in the board, but I would like upgrade room.

Anyone try it with more? Is performance the same between these two boards?

phpguru

I have the P4C800 with 4 512MB Corsair LL PC3200 Dimms, works great, my timings are 2-3-5. Don't have a memory bandwidth figure for ya, cuz sandra won't do the benchmark on my system, dunno why, everything else works fine.

bah, asus doesn't even know their own board. Use cpuz to determine if its dual or single channel if you can. try Aida32 for another memory benchmark.

Thanks,
phpguru

If you go to the corsair website you will

see that there own test board is the Asus P4c800
http://www.corsairmicro.com/xms/xms_modules.html

the asus board is awsome

ASUS P4C800:

CPU-Z -> Memory

Size: 2047 MBytes
Channels #: Dual
ECC: Disabled
Module1: Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512MB
Module2: Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512MB
Module3: Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512MB
Module4: Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512MB
Frequency: 199 Mhz
CAS# Latency: 2 clocks
RAS# to CAS# Delay: 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge: 2 clocks
Cycle Time (Tras): 5 clocks

AIDA32 Read bandwidth: 4732MB/sec.


Slightly below the intel 875 MB running a 3.0 Ghz. Damn how is my 3.2 p4c800 slower than a 3.0 intel D875PBZ? I brought this board cuz all the benchmarks showed it owning the intel and other MBs, guess I'll have to play with the bios, and maybe wait for a bios update while i'm at it.