an35n ultra dual channel no go

[waver123]

Well since my barton doesn't quite work well with my old nf7-s rev1.2, I put in the shuttle an35n ultra that comes as a bundle.

The board would run fine with single channel @ 200mhz (200 x 11 for my barton) 2-2-2-11 with either one sticks of my 2 hyperx 3000 or corsair 3200LL in either slot 1 or slot 3. The board would fail memtest86 test#5 everytime if I put in 2 sticks of hyperx 3000 or corsair, in either slots 1/3 or 2/3. I tried switching the order, upped the vdimm to 2.7v (max for this board), upped the voltage for the barton all the way to 1.8v, lower latency all the way to 3-3-3-11, no go it would work @ 185mhz DC @ 2-2-2-11 but that's it, not even 190mhz. Both my hyperx 3000 and corsair works fine in DC @ my nf7-s @ 200mhz @ 2-2-2-11. AAARGGHGH. I thought these nforce ultra are guranteed to work @ 200mhz. Gonna return it tomorrow for another board hope I just got a bad one

 

[Matthias99]

Mine works fine at DDR400 with dual-channel at 2.0-5-5-11, but any lower and it flips out (memtest works fine, oddly, but Prime95 fails). I couldn't get it to work lower than 2.0-3-3-11 at any speed; I think the memory controller on this board is just not quite as good as on an NF7 or some of the other more expensive NForce2s.

If you can't run dual-channel at 400Mhz at any settings (try something like 3-8-8-11), your board is defective.

 

[Quailane]

My board doesn't run well at all at high speeds. With dual channel, it just does not like to run at any speed.

 

[waver123]

thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it out.

I returned and swapped for another board, same problem , this one does a little better 2-2-2-11 @ 190mhz but that's it. Won't work at 2.5-3-3-11 or 3-3-3-11 @ 200mhz. I gave up after that.

I'm gonna try Matthias99's 2-5-5-11/3-8-8-11 later, I thought 3-3-3-11 is low enough

Man I'm so disappointed with this board, I guess I expect too much. I'm gonna stick with abit/asus from now on....