4x1GB in ASUS P5K-E/WiFi-AP

[jdkick]

I went with 2x1GB when I built may machine because it was was super cheap AR (new year special over at NCIX). I'm looking to move to 4GB and was wondering how my board fairs with 4x1GB installed? I'd be running Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 DIMMs (5-5-5-18) and may OC a little at some point (not looking to push for max. OC, just a little extra over the stock 2.2GHz... would be nice to get close to 3GHz).

I did do a bit of reading and some have noted issues when overclocking with 4x1GB installed in the P5K-E series, but most reports of trouble seem to involve memory running at higher voltages or with tighter timings.

I originally posted in the memory forum but didn't get much input...

 

[akhilles]

I used to run 4 sticks on P5K vanilla. Didn't push the ram too much. Could overclock just about as good as 2 sticks. The question is how much are you gonna push the ram? IMO, you can o/c the hell out of the cpu, not the ram.

 

[jdkick]

I'd probably be happy getting the CPU to ~3GHz (11x266 for starters) and would keep the memory ratio at 1:1 using 4x1GB DDR2-800 (Corsair XMS2). From your experience with the P5K, would this be attainable?

 

[BoboKatt]

Running my Asus P5K-E Wifi here with a Q6600 G0, and 4X1024 of Patriot 4-4-4-12 2.1V DDR2. My current stable 24/7 config is the CPU at 3.2 GHZ (356 FSB) from its stock 2.4 (9x266) with the RAM running at 445 Mhz at 5-5-5-15 1.9V.

The four sticks worked from day one. I actually even tried swapping out 2 sticks and replacing them with my Ballistix (same speed, voltage and chips). Again no issues whatsoever. I can run my CPU at well over 3.5 GHZ, and I have again no issues with the RAM just that I need to raise the V core of the CPU way too high for my liking. Only thing I also needed to do was to go from 1.85 V on the ram to a few ticks up but still well below 2.1.

So again, at least on my board. Also to let you know I was using a very vey very old BIOS for the longest time and never had an issue and after flashing to the latest official bios, again no issues with 4 sticks.

 

[jdkick]

Cool. That's promising. Thanks for the info.

 

[gpse]

Should be fine, I have a p5k-e wifi running 4x1Gb without any issue's.
using Patriot 800mhz DDR2 1.95v