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Asus A8V Deluxe. My goal is 2 meg memory. Should I purchase 4 x 512 meg
sticks (2 x double mode) or 2 x 1 meg sticks. Maybe some slight over
clocking in the future.
 
norm said:
Asus A8V Deluxe. My goal is 2 meg memory. Should I purchase 4 x 512 meg
sticks (2 x double mode) or 2 x 1 meg sticks. Maybe some slight over
clocking in the future.
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As Paul will no doubt explain in detail, 2 x 1 Gig is the way to go.
Personally, I'd check out the new Corsair TWINX2048-3500LLPRO DDR 2048MB
Kit, running @ cl 2-3-2-6-1T, 437Mhz. Should give you headroom for
overclocking, and will probably work out faster than 4 x 512.
 
See the FAQs for the A8V Deluxe at support.asus.com. (I'd offer a link, but
I'm not clever enough to circumvent Asus' Java scripting.)

If you populate all four DIMM slots, and leave the BIOS settings on
automatic, the system will cut the memory clock back to 333 MHz (from 400).
The FAQ recommends changing to manual settings to overcome that, but it says
nothing about how successful that may be. (From what I've read, it may be
safer if you have one of the newer 90 nm CPUs. They are supposed to have
improved memory controllers, as compared to the 130 nm chips.)

On the other hand, Asus makes a QVL (qualified vendors list for DDR400)
memory available for download (as a .pdf). You won't find any 1 GB modules
on that list.

I may try two 1 GB DIMMs in my A8V D. soon, but I haven't acquired them yet.
Most of the reviews I've read used nForce 4 mainboards, so I don't know how
comparable they would be. (My system is running cheerfully at a 220 MHz bus
frequency, using a couple of unmatched 512 MB sticks of generic memory, so
perhaps it's not too fussy.)


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As Paul will no doubt explain in detail, 2 x 1 Gig is the way to go.
Personally, I'd check out the new Corsair TWINX2048-3500LLPRO DDR 2048MB
Kit, running @ cl 2-3-2-6-1T, 437Mhz. Should give you headroom for
overclocking, and will probably work out faster than 4 x 512.
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Difficult to get at the moment and somewhat spendy ( ~$315), but can
push to 480Mhz @ 2.5-3-2-6 and to 500MHz @ 2.5-3-3-6 or 2.5-3-3-7.
All at 1T command rate. They seem to scale up with speed very well
indeed.

John Lewis
 
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