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Too much memory?..............

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s7e9h3n

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Mar 5, 2002
I had been on a mission to get my rig past 140FSB stable for the last couple of weeks. At first, I thought that I had a bad board or some bad memory (But I never doubted my Northwood :) ) I was getting constant blue screens saying that it was "dumping memory." I knew that the memory was good since I had my friend test them on his AMD rig at 166FSB. I started looking at other people's setups and how they acheived a 150+FSB and one thing stuck out......the fact that almost nobody I saw had 1GB of memory like I did. So - being willing to try anything at this point - I took out one of my sticks of DDR and to my surprise, I was able to post right into XP and haven't got a blue sceen again! I switched the sticks, thinking that the one I took out maybe had gone bad, but my rig still booted up every time. Could it be that I had too much ram to OC to 150FSB? I had read somewhere that many of the new DDR mobos were made with only 2 or 3 dimm sockets because DDR is less efficient in larger quantities. Is that true? If it is, then, I'm gonna run out find me a 128MB stick of PC3000 ram :p
 

dscline

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Sep 28, 2001
I think the amount of memory you have is less important than the NUMBER of memory modules you have. All other things being equal, you are more likely to have success at high speeds with a single 512MB dimm than two 256ers. Timing issues and load on the memory controller make multiple memory modules harder to clock high.