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ASUS A8N-SLI & OCZ EL DDR PC-4000 Dual Channel Gold VX

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Diagrafeas

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Given the fact that ASUS A8N-SLI supports up to 3.0V DRAM Voltage what timings could I get at 500MHz DRAM speed with OCZ EL DDR PC-4000 Dual Channel Gold VX?According to OCZ,it's DDR Booster is incompatible with this motherboard.Why is this?Is there a way to use it so as to be able to use the above memory at full speed and best timings(500MHz 2-2-2-6-1T)?
 
Sup all! Im new to forums. Name is Joe...

Sup Diagrafeas! I have the same problem. I want those Voltage Extreme chips
only I too have the A8N-SLI D... Sucks that this DDR Booster is not compat.
w/ this board. I just emailed OCZ support asking them if the compatibility issue is due to the Booster not fitting into the slots or why. I read that the vx ish will not go to those 500MHz 2-2-2-6-1T timings with less than like 3.3 volts or something like that.
 
Do you have the deluxe or the premium or the plain? The deluxe which I have and the plain SLI has the 240-245 1T problem. Which means you cant run ram over that speed, 242 in my case with a 1T command rate it will BSOD and crash regardless what type of ram or settings. The performance penalty for running a 2T command rate makes it a bad move to run 250 and over with 2T unless you can get over 300 2T then its marginally faster than 220-230 1T. The premium model doesn't have this problem.

That VX ram really operates best with over 3 volts. But with 3.0 volts it should run 2-2-2-7 up to 230-240 with no problems, maybe even 1.5-2-2-7 (seven bench's better than 5 or 6 or 8). It will probably do 2.5-3-3-7 up to about 290mhz

If you have the plain or deluxe mobo, this ram is not a good match I would RMA it for some TCCD or TCC5 or even the value ram, or swap mobos for the DFI ultra series. High ramspeed on A64's is really only good for synthetic benchmarks. Unless your main purpose is competive benchmarking high ram speed won't make hardly any difference in gaming and normal day to day apps.
 
What up Guitar Daddy!

"High ramspeed on A64's is really only good for synthetic benchmarks. Unless your main purpose is competive benchmarking high ram speed won't make hardly any difference in gaming and normal day to day apps"

What do you think DOES increase gaming and normal day to day ish as far as ram is concerned? Low latency? I have the Deluxe and im trying to decide what ram to get for OPTIMAL performance in the ram area. What do you think?
 
With that board and its voltage limits you should go for higher clock frequencies. There are much better memory available with those limits. VX or BH5 would be a bad choice unless you get a DDR booster.
 
Naturally yes but I have an A64 system and as far as I understand, they benefit most from low latency rather than high clock speeds and high latency???

What does everyone think?
 
Low latency effects performance some. But A64's aren't starved for bandwidth like Intels and older XP's. So memory doesn't really make much of a difference no matter what you do.
 
"VX or BH5 would be a bad choice unless you get a DDR booster"


Do you know of any DDR booster that is compatable with my board as the OCZ is not?
 
Originally posted by: jdnsd
"VX or BH5 would be a bad choice unless you get a DDR booster"


Do you know of any DDR booster that is compatable with my board as the OCZ is not?
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No I don't. I wasn't sure if it was or not. But without at least 3.4 volts available, I think it would be a mistake to go with ram needs high voltage.
 
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