- Joined
- Oct 13, 2002
- Location
- Carrboro, NC
I've been building computers for a couple of years now, and i feel pretty confident in my choices; until this last build. I went with a Gigabyte p35-DS3L, Q9300, and 8GB RAM (G-Skill). I was dual booting XP and Ubuntu 8.04-64bit. Things were fine and dandy, but when working in linux, the rig kept freezing. Doing work in XP - everything's fine. So I ran Memtest on the four sticks of pc8500, and errors galore. All the settings were correct; voltage and timings. I thought, bad sticks, so I RMAed them. When the new set came in, same exact problem. I raised a stink with newegg, and got them to take back the RAM and credit the account so I could purchase another company's product. I picked up 8GB of Mushkin's pc8500. SAME PROBLEM!! Mushkin's support was great and walked me through everything possible. The board won't even run 8GB at 667MHz. So I've come to the conclusion - this board (and probably the chipset) can not handle 8GB of 1066 RAM. Just not enough juice. In investigating this, Gigabyte's site has only 1GB sticks working at 1066.
Really long story short - does anyone have proof of any p35 board running 8GB of 1066? If not, does anyone have proof of any x38 board running the same setup? I'm at wits end. It's been 7 weeks now, and I have not been able to run the system at full throttle. I'm either going to have to try again for newegg to credit me (let's face it, odds seem slim), so I can get pc6400, or cough up +$200 for another MB that can handle the 8GB.
Thanks in advance to this community.
Really long story short - does anyone have proof of any p35 board running 8GB of 1066? If not, does anyone have proof of any x38 board running the same setup? I'm at wits end. It's been 7 weeks now, and I have not been able to run the system at full throttle. I'm either going to have to try again for newegg to credit me (let's face it, odds seem slim), so I can get pc6400, or cough up +$200 for another MB that can handle the 8GB.
Thanks in advance to this community.