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Lyle Rhodes August 19th 03 06:39 PM

GA-8KNXP... Which memory???
 
I'm thinking of making the leap again... Last time with the GA-8IHXP and it
had memory issues... Now I'm looking at the 8KNXP and it appears to have
issues as well... I read the Kingston 3500 is the way to go and that
Corsair is not... Is that correct??? What other brands should be
considered?

LR



Lyle Rhodes August 20th 03 06:22 AM

I know there has been allot of things written about the memory problems with
this but could someone give me a success story?

LR


"Lyle Rhodes" wrote in message
t...
I'm thinking of making the leap again... Last time with the GA-8IHXP and

it
had memory issues... Now I'm looking at the 8KNXP and it appears to have
issues as well... I read the Kingston 3500 is the way to go and that
Corsair is not... Is that correct??? What other brands should be
considered?

LR





Darmok August 20th 03 11:41 AM


"Lyle Rhodes" wrote in message
t...

I'm thinking of making the leap again... Last time with the GA-8IHXP and

it
had memory issues... Now I'm looking at the 8KNXP and it appears to have
issues as well... I read the Kingston 3500 is the way to go and that
Corsair is not... Is that correct??? What other brands should be
considered?

LR



I have the GA-8IK1100, and started off with a couple Corsair XMS 256
MB sticks for a total of 512 MB. It ran okay, and I even got it up to
440 mhz in dual-channel mode. (this was PC3200 stuff)

However, I succumbed to the 'faster is better' theory, and bought some
Geil PC3700, 256MB sticks. I'm now running them at 466mhz in dual
channel mode ... amazing. Just works out great with my FSB set to 232
mhz on my P4 2.6 800mhz cpu, as I can run over 3ghz and memory keeps
up nicely.


The Marshal August 20th 03 03:20 PM

I know it gets slated because its cas latency is 3 but me and a friend are
running corsair twinx 3700 with no problems at all. I have the 1gb (2x512)
he has 512mb(2x256) neither of us have messed about with the memory timings
but it overclocks well as it 467mhz ram.

"Ken" wrote in message
...
Ive got corsair xms 3500C2 memory. Working fine here

Ken


"Lyle Rhodes" wrote in message
t...
I'm thinking of making the leap again... Last time with the GA-8IHXP

and
it
had memory issues... Now I'm looking at the 8KNXP and it appears to

have
issues as well... I read the Kingston 3500 is the way to go and that
Corsair is not... Is that correct??? What other brands should be
considered?

LR







Lyle Rhodes August 20th 03 03:45 PM

Now that's more like it... I have read that Corsair does not work and
everyone is waiting for the F6 bios... I have also read that Kingston is
the only way... Opinions...


"Ken" wrote in message
...
Ive got corsair xms 3500C2 memory. Working fine here

Ken


"Lyle Rhodes" wrote in message
t...
I'm thinking of making the leap again... Last time with the GA-8IHXP

and
it
had memory issues... Now I'm looking at the 8KNXP and it appears to

have
issues as well... I read the Kingston 3500 is the way to go and that
Corsair is not... Is that correct??? What other brands should be
considered?

LR







Bob Davis August 21st 03 05:31 AM

I am running Kingston KVR400X64C3A/512's in two matched sets (2gb total) and
the computer is very stable. However, see my recent post "More on 8KNXP and
RAM compatibility" where I describe a problem running Memtest86 v3 and an
email from Gigabyte about 2.6v modules being incompatible with the 8KNXP.
These Kingston modules and apparently all Kingston PC3200's are 2.6v, but
although Gigabyte specs show that only 2.5v modules should be used both
Kingston and my vendor (Mwave.com) show these modules as compatible with the
mobo. Mwave even combines them in their motherboard bundle options.

I'm confused, and although my system is very stable I worry about any future
problems that may occur from this.


"Ken" wrote in message
...
Ive got corsair xms 3500C2 memory. Working fine here

Ken


"Lyle Rhodes" wrote in message
t...
I'm thinking of making the leap again... Last time with the GA-8IHXP

and
it
had memory issues... Now I'm looking at the 8KNXP and it appears to

have
issues as well... I read the Kingston 3500 is the way to go and that
Corsair is not... Is that correct??? What other brands should be
considered?

LR







Lyle Rhodes August 21st 03 05:38 AM

Can't you turn the voltage up .1???


"Bob Davis" wrote in message
.. .
I am running Kingston KVR400X64C3A/512's in two matched sets (2gb total)

and
the computer is very stable. However, see my recent post "More on 8KNXP

and
RAM compatibility" where I describe a problem running Memtest86 v3 and an
email from Gigabyte about 2.6v modules being incompatible with the 8KNXP.
These Kingston modules and apparently all Kingston PC3200's are 2.6v, but
although Gigabyte specs show that only 2.5v modules should be used both
Kingston and my vendor (Mwave.com) show these modules as compatible with

the
mobo. Mwave even combines them in their motherboard bundle options.

I'm confused, and although my system is very stable I worry about any

future
problems that may occur from this.


"Ken" wrote in message
...
Ive got corsair xms 3500C2 memory. Working fine here

Ken


"Lyle Rhodes" wrote in message
t...
I'm thinking of making the leap again... Last time with the GA-8IHXP

and
it
had memory issues... Now I'm looking at the 8KNXP and it appears to

have
issues as well... I read the Kingston 3500 is the way to go and that
Corsair is not... Is that correct??? What other brands should be
considered?

LR









Bob Davis August 21st 03 05:42 AM

I tried that but it didn't help the Memtest problems. Is the "normal"
setting (or whatever it's called in the bios) 2.5v for DIMM voltage? My
email from Gigabyte says that 2.6v modules are not compatible with this
mobo, even though Kingston and Mwave both show them as being correct.

"Lyle Rhodes" wrote in message
news:N0Y0b.159163$cF.56827@rwcrnsc53...
Can't you turn the voltage up .1???


"Bob Davis" wrote in message
.. .
I am running Kingston KVR400X64C3A/512's in two matched sets (2gb total)

and
the computer is very stable. However, see my recent post "More on 8KNXP

and
RAM compatibility" where I describe a problem running Memtest86 v3 and

an
email from Gigabyte about 2.6v modules being incompatible with the

8KNXP.
These Kingston modules and apparently all Kingston PC3200's are 2.6v,

but
although Gigabyte specs show that only 2.5v modules should be used both
Kingston and my vendor (Mwave.com) show these modules as compatible with

the
mobo. Mwave even combines them in their motherboard bundle options.

I'm confused, and although my system is very stable I worry about any

future
problems that may occur from this.


"Ken" wrote in message
...
Ive got corsair xms 3500C2 memory. Working fine here

Ken


"Lyle Rhodes" wrote in message
t...
I'm thinking of making the leap again... Last time with the

GA-8IHXP
and
it
had memory issues... Now I'm looking at the 8KNXP and it appears to

have
issues as well... I read the Kingston 3500 is the way to go and

that
Corsair is not... Is that correct??? What other brands should be
considered?

LR











Timothy Drouillard August 21st 03 05:47 AM

When I bought my 8KNXP about a month ago, I bought the MB, a 3.2Ghz retail
cpu and 4 sticks of 512meg ram.
There is nothing special about the ram, it's not Kingston, or Crucial, or
any other name brand.

The part no on each stick shows it as...
PC3200 512MB DDR
P/N: D512M400SA

since I bought it all at one time, the shop assembled the MB/CPU/ram and
fired it up to make sure it worked. It fired up just fine on the bench has
has been running perfectly ever since.

Since I bought 4 sticks at the same time, the shop did pick 4 sticks that
were all from the same lot.

I keep reading about people buying the fancy name brand ram and still seem
to have problems.

This leads some people to get the impression that this board is very picky
about ram.

Maybe it is, maybe it's not. I just wanted to give an example of someone
just using generic DDR400 ram with absolutley no problems.
No tweaking of any kind was needed. Just plug it in and go.
And yes it's running in Dual Channel mode.

"Bob Davis" wrote in message
.. .
I am running Kingston KVR400X64C3A/512's in two matched sets (2gb total)

and
the computer is very stable. However, see my recent post "More on 8KNXP

and
RAM compatibility" where I describe a problem running Memtest86 v3 and an
email from Gigabyte about 2.6v modules being incompatible with the 8KNXP.
These Kingston modules and apparently all Kingston PC3200's are 2.6v, but
although Gigabyte specs show that only 2.5v modules should be used both
Kingston and my vendor (Mwave.com) show these modules as compatible with

the
mobo. Mwave even combines them in their motherboard bundle options.

I'm confused, and although my system is very stable I worry about any

future
problems that may occur from this.


"Ken" wrote in message
...
Ive got corsair xms 3500C2 memory. Working fine here

Ken


"Lyle Rhodes" wrote in message
t...
I'm thinking of making the leap again... Last time with the GA-8IHXP

and
it
had memory issues... Now I'm looking at the 8KNXP and it appears to

have
issues as well... I read the Kingston 3500 is the way to go and that
Corsair is not... Is that correct??? What other brands should be
considered?

LR









Lyle Rhodes August 21st 03 06:29 AM

Anyone tried Mushkin? Mushkin 512MB PC 3200 Level2 Dual Pack (2x256MB)
CAS2-2-2, Part# 991031 - Retail



"Timothy Drouillard" wrote in message
...
When I bought my 8KNXP about a month ago, I bought the MB, a 3.2Ghz retail
cpu and 4 sticks of 512meg ram.
There is nothing special about the ram, it's not Kingston, or Crucial, or
any other name brand.

The part no on each stick shows it as...
PC3200 512MB DDR
P/N: D512M400SA

since I bought it all at one time, the shop assembled the MB/CPU/ram and
fired it up to make sure it worked. It fired up just fine on the bench has
has been running perfectly ever since.

Since I bought 4 sticks at the same time, the shop did pick 4 sticks that
were all from the same lot.

I keep reading about people buying the fancy name brand ram and still seem
to have problems.

This leads some people to get the impression that this board is very picky
about ram.

Maybe it is, maybe it's not. I just wanted to give an example of someone
just using generic DDR400 ram with absolutley no problems.
No tweaking of any kind was needed. Just plug it in and go.
And yes it's running in Dual Channel mode.

"Bob Davis" wrote in message
.. .
I am running Kingston KVR400X64C3A/512's in two matched sets (2gb total)

and
the computer is very stable. However, see my recent post "More on 8KNXP

and
RAM compatibility" where I describe a problem running Memtest86 v3 and

an
email from Gigabyte about 2.6v modules being incompatible with the

8KNXP.
These Kingston modules and apparently all Kingston PC3200's are 2.6v,

but
although Gigabyte specs show that only 2.5v modules should be used both
Kingston and my vendor (Mwave.com) show these modules as compatible with

the
mobo. Mwave even combines them in their motherboard bundle options.

I'm confused, and although my system is very stable I worry about any

future
problems that may occur from this.


"Ken" wrote in message
...
Ive got corsair xms 3500C2 memory. Working fine here

Ken


"Lyle Rhodes" wrote in message
t...
I'm thinking of making the leap again... Last time with the

GA-8IHXP
and
it
had memory issues... Now I'm looking at the 8KNXP and it appears to

have
issues as well... I read the Kingston 3500 is the way to go and

that
Corsair is not... Is that correct??? What other brands should be
considered?

LR












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