The frustration(tempers flaring) is from spending 300.00 on this ram and haveing worse preformance than my crucial pc2100!Tends to kinda pis* a guy off.
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The frustration(tempers flaring) is from spending 300.00 on this ram and haveing worse preformance than my crucial pc2100!Tends to kinda pis* a guy off.
I, myself think this is Nvidia`s fault not the fault of the ram because the ram was available a long time before this new chipset came out.
The non A1's work fine w/kingston. It's a prob with the chipset/ram combo.
It's ok, thank you for your apology. It was never about the oc'ing, as was stated in all my emails to Epox tech support, but about the ram not running to spec. If I buy PC3xxx ram, I want it to run to spec in a board that is certified to run PC3xxx ram, ya know. I don't think anyone is rma'ing their board over this. If anything, they're selling their ram. I'm the only one in the thread that has rma'd anything and it was my ram, directly to kingston, so no skin off their back.Quote:
Originally posted by macutty
4. I really was not trying to rant on this thread, but maybe try and help you guys be a little more realistic. I have made my point and won't post in this thread again. Sorry if I upset you ;)
It's cool :cool:
Alright
i need to get this done this weekend
so is it pretty much in agreeance that its all nforce2 boards that have this problem of not being able to run dual channel more than 180fsb
so what about the kt400 chipset, i see toms hardware did a review and the dual channel seemed to be faster, but will being able to bump it up to 200fsb on the kt400 make up for it?
oh man, im so confused
someone just tell me this answer please!
i want 512 megs of ram
using barton 2500+
want good real world performance
what board and ram should i go with?
cheap now ;)
Nooooo, you've got it wrong. All nforce2 motherboard that have the A1 stepping northbridge have a problem running dual channel WHEN USING KINGSTON HYPERX PC3X00 modules. Again: The problem is a compatability issue between the A1 stepping NB and Kingston HyperX RAM. However, people (including myself) have had good luck using other brands of RAM. I'm currently running my Buffalo Tech modules at 200MHz Dual Channel DDR in my 8RDA+ which features an A1 stepping NB.Quote:
Originally posted by Krelkor
Alright
i need to get this done this weekend
so is it pretty much in agreeance that its all nforce2 boards that have this problem of not being able to run dual channel more than 180fsb
so what about the kt400 chipset, i see toms hardware did a review and the dual channel seemed to be faster, but will being able to bump it up to 200fsb on the kt400 make up for it?
oh man, im so confused
someone just tell me this answer please!
i want 512 megs of ram
using barton 2500+
want good real world performance
what board and ram should i go with?
cheap now ;)
Is it only stable up to 200 fsb or can it go higher? What was the mhz rating on your memory?Quote:
Originally posted by The WhiteRabbit
Nooooo, you've got it wrong. All nforce2 motherboard that have the A1 stepping northbridge have a problem running dual channel WHEN USING KINGSTON HYPERX PC3X00 modules. Again: The problem is a compatability issue between the A1 stepping NB and Kingston HyperX RAM. However, people (including myself) have had good luck using other brands of RAM. I'm currently running my Buffalo Tech modules at 200MHz Dual Channel DDR in my 8RDA+ which features an A1 stepping NB.
kirkyg
To be honest, I'm not yet entierly certain--I seem to be having some power supply (I only have to 300W PSU, although I did order a faster one) or heat (not CPU, but possibly NB/SB/Mosfet) issues, but I believe I'll be able to get 220 MHz to be stable, since I can get run 220MHz FSB without having Prime95 errors. However, 3dMark evenntually drops me to the desktop if I leave it looping, although it seems to happen at almost any fsb speed above stock, so I'm going to play some voltage games and see what happens. Check out my "It's here" thread for further breaking news as it happens ;)Quote:
Originally posted by kirkyg
Is it only stable up to 200 fsb or can it go higher? What was the mhz rating on your memory?
kirkyg
EDIT: Oh yeah, the memory is CL2.5 PC3200 from NewEgg.
janko,
I'm not sure if you've mentioned this in your older threads, but when you tried the newest bios, did it help you AT ALL? I'm running into a wall around 190mhz fsb and I was wondering if it would help me.
Also, did you max out Vcore? if not, how high did you go?
Anyone have any new info on this topic?I'm still running at sub par FSB.:confused: :mad:
No, the newer bios hasn't helped. I just heard back from Epox, and they basically said Corsair is working fine and that's really all they said, so it doesn't look like anything else is going to happen, unless Nvidia or Kingston do something.Quote:
Originally posted by thuggator
janko,
I'm not sure if you've mentioned this in your older threads, but when you tried the newest bios, did it help you AT ALL? I'm running into a wall around 190mhz fsb and I was wondering if it would help me.
Also, did you max out Vcore? if not, how high did you go?
Here's the most recent email I got:
Quote:
Jay,
I just wanted to let you know that with the 8RGA+ we have had issues with Kingston HyperX 3200 erroring out of Memtest86, 3DMark 2001 and 2003, and Sandra. This is with it running in dual DDR mode. Single stick, or putting it in bank 1 (slots 2-3) generates errors but not so many. With Corsair TwinX we have had no problems and it runs beautifully. In both cases these are with evaluation sticks and, so far, we have only had a chance to test one set of each kind of memory on one board.
Best Regards,
Thanks for the update.Man these boaards have some issues,and i have them all.My lite on burner dosn't work at all with N-vidia IDE drivers,Radeon AIW9700 pro has compatibility problems(random corruption at stock speeds,SCSI card and or drives don't work at all on this 8rda+(worked on my other 8rda+ and works on my my 8kha+).http://www.amdforums.com/showthread....&highlight=agp To top it off the o'll Hyper-X snafu.
maybe the mobo makers started using a diffent clock generator chip for the RAM, and that causes problems???
I am only trying to give more "insight" on this situation.
Sorry for bumping this if people wanted it to go away. I just bought HyperX b/c the general hardware forums sucks so now I am stuck with HyperX and 8RDA. HOWEVER, I bought my 8RDA quite a while ago (probably well over six months ago) so is it safe to assume that I don't have the infamous A1 stepping of the northbridge??? How do I check?
Pull off the heatsync on your northbridge and you'll see A3 in the writing on the chip...or A1 if its the new stepping.
kirkyg