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Also, due to AMD moving the memory controller onto the processor (and |
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many other subtle things), memory will sometimes behave differently on |
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intel systems... |
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Brian Litzinger wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 03:45:03PM +0200, Dieter Ries wrote: |
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>> hi, |
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>> currently i am running my gentoo on a 3000+ with 1g ram single channel. |
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>> are there support problems with am2 chipsets? which mb's are the best? how big |
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> I setup two systems using the Abit KN9 SLI motherboards. |
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> http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=315 |
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> It is AM2 and DDR2. I had an Athlon X2 4200 cpu. |
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> At first I tried using 800MHz Cosair memory. But the system would |
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> not boot. Just beeped the BIOS beep of death. |
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> I read on some of the gaming forums that others were having troubles |
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> with this motherboard and running memories at their top rated speed. |
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> As it is a gaming MB every last detail is configurable in the |
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> BIOS. Others had success fine tuning the DRAM parameters for |
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> the particular memory they had. |
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> Others suggested running the memory at one notch below maximum. |
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> I.E. 800 -> 667, 667 -> 540, and so on. |
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> This latter trick worked for me. |
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> The gamers report the system is quite reliable and I found the same |
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> thing with RAM speed downgrade. |
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> An interesting problem with running the memory below rated is |
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> how do you get started? |
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> The BIOS defaults to 'DRAM speed by SPD', so if your 800MHz memory |
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> doesn't work you can't get into the BIOS to change the settings. |
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> The solution there is have some slow memory laying around to |
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> boot and set the CMOS. |
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> There where also cases (I tried lots of different memory) where |
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> some memories would boot at their rated maximum but would fail |
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> memtest86. |
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