4 PC3200 DIMM's + E6 Venice = 333MHz?

[XMan]

I thought the E6 stepping and above could run 4 DIMM's at DDR 400? I'm using a 3200+ E6 Venice, A8N-VM CSM, and four 512MB Corsair Value Select DIMM's.

 

[RallyMaster]

I don't think the motherboard can handle it. You should've gone 2x1GB.

 

[XMan]

Hmm, I don't see anything about it in the user manual. Ah well. Not a huge deal, I guess, I just added another pair of sticks because I got a good deal on them.

 

[stevty2889]

The motherboard may have just defaulted to 333mhz on it's on, but you should still be able to manualy change it back to DDR400 and it will work fine.

 

[XMan]

I've got the memory speed manually set to 200 MHz in the BIOS, but it's still POSTing as 333. I'm wondering if I need to set it to 2T as well.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: X-Man
I've got the memory speed manually set to 200 MHz in the BIOS, but it's still POSTing as 333. I'm wondering if I need to set it to 2T as well.

That didn't work either.

I don't see how it can be a motherboard issue as the memory controller is on the CPU.

I can live with it though, I just upgraded the memory for as long as I'll be using the onboard video.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Update to latest BIOS?

Its odd that you can't use 4 DIMMs and "OC" them to DDR400

 

[XMan]

I'm using the latest BIOS, 0702.

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Update to latest BIOS?

Its odd that you can't use 4 DIMMs and "OC" them to DDR400

Yeah, most mobo's will default to DDR333 even on a revision E chip that supports DDR400 with 4 sticks. It's usually a simple matter to crank it back up to 200Mhz and away you go.