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- Dec 8, 2004
Well I bought my A64 just a few weeks before Venice came out. Then comes BF2, mem monster. And I have always wanted more mem for WoW.
I have read lots of threads regarding value ram and 4 sticks, and wanted to share my own experiences (more to come) about how it worked out.
Sticks are 3200 Infeneon, I already had 2, and picked up 2 more real cheap so I thought I would give it a try and worse case just buy 2x1GB later.
Very little testing has been done at this point. Took me all of lunch to get them to boot. Had to start the computer with 2 sticks and manually adjust the mem timings. Would not boot with defaults loaded.
Only settings that will boot are 3,3,3,7 and 2t. The only part there that makes me sad is the 2t, I will test later to see how bad it kills my bandwith. Timing settings were the same on 2x512.
I currently have memtester running on the box @ 225mhz, because that was my previous comfort (not quite max) at 1t. Hopefully I can squeeze a few more mhz to make up for 2t. So far it is passing all the tests. (3 hours worth)
More to come as I work on it over the next few days.
Initial cliff's notes: 4 x 512 works fine on the older 939s, however tweaking is required, at least on my DFI board. At this point timings have not been changed except 2t was required to boot. So far no overclocking ability has been lost.
I have read lots of threads regarding value ram and 4 sticks, and wanted to share my own experiences (more to come) about how it worked out.
Sticks are 3200 Infeneon, I already had 2, and picked up 2 more real cheap so I thought I would give it a try and worse case just buy 2x1GB later.
Very little testing has been done at this point. Took me all of lunch to get them to boot. Had to start the computer with 2 sticks and manually adjust the mem timings. Would not boot with defaults loaded.
Only settings that will boot are 3,3,3,7 and 2t. The only part there that makes me sad is the 2t, I will test later to see how bad it kills my bandwith. Timing settings were the same on 2x512.
I currently have memtester running on the box @ 225mhz, because that was my previous comfort (not quite max) at 1t. Hopefully I can squeeze a few more mhz to make up for 2t. So far it is passing all the tests. (3 hours worth)
More to come as I work on it over the next few days.
Initial cliff's notes: 4 x 512 works fine on the older 939s, however tweaking is required, at least on my DFI board. At this point timings have not been changed except 2t was required to boot. So far no overclocking ability has been lost.