I have a potential problem with 8IK1100 version and it's 6 memory slots. I bought 6 PQI 512MB DDR400 modules to fill all slots. But as I have been unpleasantly surprised it seems they will not work (don't have the RAM yet). And Anand's statement below will NOT be true. Gigabyte's manual states that if you want to use all 6 slots you can use Dual Sided modules in slots 1,4 but only Single Sided modules in slots 2,3,5,6. Meaning that you will have to find 512MB modules that are single sided and if you care to research you will find that unfortunately such modules don't even exists yet.
So it's either 4GB of 1GB sticks or 2GB of 512 sticks because you can use 4 DS sticks, but 3GB is not achievable?
Sh** and I bought this board precisely because of the 6 slots AND after reading the review here. I'll take reviews with more than a grain of salt from now on.
Form the GA-8KNXP review:
"Since the 875P chipset supports up to 4GB of memory and the 8KNXP Ultra has six DIMM slots, you'll be able to save cash on memory. That is, instead of buying four 1GB memory modules that are about four times as expensive as 512MB modules like you would be forced to do with desktop motherboards that only support four DIMM slots, you have the luxury of buying four 512MB modules and just two 1GB modules. Of course, unless you have applications that can use this much memory, there's no advantage to having six DIMM slots expect to say that they are all functional up to 400MHz."
So it's either 4GB of 1GB sticks or 2GB of 512 sticks because you can use 4 DS sticks, but 3GB is not achievable?
Sh** and I bought this board precisely because of the 6 slots AND after reading the review here. I'll take reviews with more than a grain of salt from now on.
Form the GA-8KNXP review:
"Since the 875P chipset supports up to 4GB of memory and the 8KNXP Ultra has six DIMM slots, you'll be able to save cash on memory. That is, instead of buying four 1GB memory modules that are about four times as expensive as 512MB modules like you would be forced to do with desktop motherboards that only support four DIMM slots, you have the luxury of buying four 512MB modules and just two 1GB modules. Of course, unless you have applications that can use this much memory, there's no advantage to having six DIMM slots expect to say that they are all functional up to 400MHz."
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