carrion

I have tried to populate all slots on this motherboard with 4 identical sticks of corsair 1GB 800Mhz and I couldn't manage to get a stable system. With 32bit OS or 64. With 2 or 3 sticks everything was flawless.. but with the 4th on troubles begin.
After many many tries with voltage.. bios versions..timings.. overclocking and downclocking.. decide to get 2x2GB..
The sad thing is that I have heard that from many P5N-D owners. I guess a problem with memory controller in nvidia's 750i.

I'm not saying that you will not make them work.. try and you/we will see. But in case that didn't happen, won't be a surprise.
Generally is not recommended to use different types together..
Of course try to use them at 5-5-5-18 at least.

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ricflairw000

sweet thanks for the info REP+

ummmm any recomendations on which slot to put them in? :lol:

or either of the yellow ones?

ricflairw000

ram to run games and other programs at the same time

ill check on the OC

ricflairw000

So 4 matching ram doesnt work

so 2 and 2 has no shot at working?

go4life

4 with the exact same speed and latency's will work flawlessly (but you will still get a smaller oc if you care about that), what do you mean 2 and 2?

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slickwilly

I asked this very same question at the Asus forum and at the GSkill forum when I first got my P5N-D and was told that the board does not like having all 4 ram slots filled by both, it was suggested to run 2, 2 gig. sticks instead of the 2, 1 gig + 2, 512's that I had. it is supposed to have something to do with lack of voltage to run 4 sticks,
if you really need to do this and I don,t see why you need 8 gig. for video games,
then try cranking up the volts to the ram say if ram calls for 2.1 try 2.15 or 2.2.

On a side note I have 3.25 gig (32 bit os) and Crysis doesn't even use all of it
if you really want to improve your game performance get a Raptore or an SSD to put your page file on.

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kidylimp

Ssd??

go4life

most motherboards prefer not more than 2 sticks anyways!
And I still don't get why anyone needs 8gb, I can have CSS, Firefox, MSN, Steam, Itunes and some other stuff up at the same time, and I still got plenty of ram left!

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slickwilly

Solid State Disk or ram drive
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCateg...id-State-Disks

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Originally Posted by Shrimpykins When you try to overclock your whiskey sour by using dry ice instead of normal ice.

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go4life

do you guys know what bios is best for overclocking on this board? I don't want to test all the bios's xD

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