Asus P4P800 Deluxe

Yes I know it is an old board. Had it new sitting in a box and finally put it together. Using P4 3.4 ghz Prescott on it. Ram I had on it before was 4 stick of Mushkin ram I had laying around. 256mb each stick. Now using 2 stick of Kingston ram on it. Here is info:

http://www.memorystock.com/orderite...=P4P800/Deluxe&MnfId=&MdlId=36752&Passfrm=lnk

Not overclocking to any extremes. Running stock at the moment and might use the Overclocker setting in the bios if I want more. Fast enough than what I had before. The question I have is on ram capacity. On my old board. P4B533-e board. It said was good for 2 gig ram. It would choke with errors if I went anything over 1.5 gb on ram. Question I have is will this board have issues if I try and put all 4 stick in and go to 4 gb with it? Running XP Pro 32 bit system I put in it. Should I have gone to the 64 bit instead because I know I needed it because of the additional ram if I go there. The ram going higher was an after thought after I put it together. Happy with it now and may never go to the 4 sticks. Just a question was all.

Thanks for the help

Todd, I've used that board back in the day, however I never tried to run 4gb of ram. 1gb was enough for me back then! All four slots should work fine though.

I do have to ask why you might look to upgrade that system. I'm not sure where you are located but assuming you have a good PSU, case and hdd, you can get a new cpu, ram and mobo combo for ~$100 USD which would blow that system away. An AMD A series, or even a modern sandybridge celeron system would be miles ahead of a Prescott based system.

Except for the 2... 1gb ram sticks. I had everything sitting here. Even had the 4... 256mb sticks just sitting here. Slow to upgrade. Got harassed a lot form my uncle when he was alive telling me to build it. Always told him was fine with the 2.8ghz clocked a little to 3.0 with 1.5 gb on the ram on my P4b 533-e system. One of those guys I guess. If it works and is fine why change? Thanks for the info.

Thanks again

Todd