Anybody running 12 GB RAM on Asus P6X58D Premium?

[brianz]

I can run 6 GB (3x2) of Corsair tr3x6g1333c9 with no stability issues at all on my new Asus P6X58D Premium. I'm running an i7 980x CPU with it. In fact, I left all BIOS settings on "auto", and it's all running at manufacturer specs.

At 12 GB, it's a BSOD disaster. I've been asking around various forums and nothing works. The sticks and the motherboard aren't defective at all - Memtest ran for hours on each individually and all 12 as a whole, and whenever I can get into Win7, it sees all 12 GB just fine. It's just totally unstable, clearly a configuration issue.

I want 12 GB for heavy duty Photoshop and video work. Asus support told me that 12 GB requires all kinds of tweaks and that I shouldn't expect it to run on "auto" like the 6 GB has done. I find that annoying.

So my question is, for those who have 12 GB RAM on this board, please tell me your RAM brand/model and also your BIOS settings, because I'm resigning myself to the fact that I will never get 12 GB of my current RAM working. Somebody must have 12 GB running well on this motherboard. Of course, with the i7 980x, I wonder if somebody's settings with, say, an i7 920 may not work, since the various ratios and multiples are different. I am willing to try anything though.

Thanks,
Brian

 

[iamgenius]

Interesting, I'm planning to get this board with 980x and probably 12 GB of ram! Good that I saw this thread. I might get the patriot extreme performance viper series. Wonder if somebody has this kit with this board. Will love to see a solution to this.

Good luck OP

 

[brianz]

If I did it over again, I'd probably get an EVGA board with USB 3.0 PCI cards instead of the Asus. I think the problem is 100% a result of Asus, not any fault with Corsair. My Corsair RAM is perfectly normal and boring - I'm not OC'ing 1600 MHz sticks. This is 1333 MHz CL9. The Asus board shouldn't require engineer-class tweaks.

 

[Blazer7]

That's an interesting problem you have there. The TR3X6G1333C9 (ver 2.1) is listed in the boards QVL list as ok for 12GBs at specified speeds. It's been also "certified" by Corsair for use with your board, at least for 1 set. How come you didn't get a 12GB kit from the beginning? Is there a chance that you can trade them for such a kit? Are you using the latest BIOS ver? Are you using 2 sets of TR3X6G1333C9 of the same ver?

I've heard of many cases that people had problems with 12GBs and in some the problems were solved after re-seating the CPU in it's socket.

 

[brianz]

Blazer7, funny you should mention 12 GB as a kit - I just RMA'd the RAM and bought the full 12 GB kit, in case that does make some kind of difference. I never thought it would really matter, since both 6 GB kits were identical anyway, but in case of any quirk, I've decided to exchange. Originally I saved $10 on two 6 GB kits versus a full 12 GB, and I figured it didn't matter, but who knows.

I flashed the BIOS to the new "beta" version after having all the problems, and it helped a lot - before that, I could only run with 2 GB! Now I can run 6 GB. I wonder if there's just some bug in the BIOS that only kicks in with >6 GB and an i7 980x CPU?

I suppose I could try reseating the CPU before RMA'ing the board - thanks.

 

[TadMarshall]

Brian, I have the same motherboard (Asus P6X58D Premium) and CPU (Intel Core i7 980X) and my machine is not having trouble with 12 GB RAM. I bought a 3x4GB Mushkin kit, so my memory is in slots A1, B1 and C1 as described on page 2-10 of the Asus manual. I was running for about a week with the default configuration (default non-XMP memory speed) with no problems, then went into the BIOS setup and switched to XMP-1600. Again, no problems. I am not overclocking (so far, maybe never), I have the Intel retail CPU package and I'm using the included Intel CPU cooler, running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

Newegg describes the memory as "Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model 998776". If you can paste URLs in this forum, the link is

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820226100

I was originally thinking that I would want to go to 24 GB eventually which is why I went with the 4 GB DIMMs, but I have read that you can't get full speed if you have more than one DIMM per channel (Asus manual page 2-11) so that may be your issue. My previous machine (still kicking) was a Pentium 4 (one core with hyperthreading) with 2 GB, so 12 GB is quite a leap, but in proportion to the increase in cores. No hardware stability issues at all at this point (knock wood).

 

[brianz]

Tad, thanks for the great info. I'll keep the Mushkin 3x4 in mind if I can't get the new 6x2 kit working.

 

[Nurn]

For a treasure trove of info on the ASUS P6X58D Premium, see

http://www.overclock.net/intel-motherboards/662236-asus-p6x58d-premium-e-thread.html

Lots of owners with 12 GB.

 

[Blazer7]

Since you are in the realm of i7-980X + 12GBs +ASUS X58, you may find this of some value -> http://i4memory.com/f54/asus-x58-6-...g-detecting-less-memory-than-installed-19200/