Started by ordering the MB, CPU, 1gig ram and a copy of WinXP Pro from the
local computer shop.
When I stooped in to pick the stuff up, i decided to add the second 1gig of
ram as well as the two Raptor HD's.

The shop made sure all four pieces of ram were from the same lot, and they
installed the ram and the cpu right there so they could fire up the MB to
insure it all worked. The ram is generic DDR400 ram, but it works just fine.

As the shop tech was firing up the MB, he mentioned to me that the MB would
only support mem in the dual-channel mode if I used only two sticks of ram.
If I used all four sticks, it would revert to single-channel use. I didn't
say anything, I just let the tech do his thing and took the parts home.

Of course he was mistaken. As long as you use mathed (same size) pairs of
ram, either one pair, two pairs or three pairs, it will run in dual-channel
mode.

I was somewhat tempted to go back to the shop and buy another pair of 512meg
sticks to fill up all six slots, but so far I've resisted the temtation.

They did ask me what I was going to use the system for, that I needed 2gig
of ram to run.

Solitaire..of course...

The only time I had a problem was when I started experimenting with settings
in the BIOS (F5). I saw where you could check 'max performance' or something
like that and tried it.

All I got was a black screen and a constant beeping. Removed the Cmos
battery for a few min, fired it back up and chose the default settings, and
it's been running great ever since.


"Bob Davis" wrote in message
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Glad you're running 2gb of RAM okay, as I've been thinking about
upgrading.
I do lots of image editing (still photos in PhotoShop, etc.). Did you
start
with 2gb? If not, where did you start and did the upgrade make much
difference?

"Timothy Drouillard" wrote in message
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I'm running Bios F5, and the system is stable as a rock with a 3.2Ghz
and
2gig of ram, two WD Raptors in a RAID 0 , GeforceFX5900-Ultra, etc...

I get nervous about running a beta BIOS, so I'll leave it as it is.

I see that there is an 'official' updateed bios (F6f I think) on
Gigabytes
web site, but it's for the GA-KNXP-Ultra not the standard board.
"Bob Davis" wrote in message
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"Richard Dower" wrote in message
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lol..is this motherboard hexed?, even more problems with this then
with
the
8INXP. Even though i personally have had zero problems myself.

Ha! Mine is stable as Gibraltar with F5, too, and damn if I feel like
fixing it if it ain't broke. I'm even afraid to upgrade from 1-2gb of
RAM.
When CPU fan speed monitoring is on in the bios I get some occasional
beeping, but I disabled it--and that's the only glitch so far in six
weeks.
(Knocking firmly on wood.)