Asus A8V Deluxe and HyperX 2x512mb PC3200 2-3-2-6

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
J

jrosenzweig

Member
Oct 17, 2001
45
0
0
I'm looking to upgrade my PC to a socket 939 system and am currently looking at the A8V Deluxe. I'm not looking to o/c so i understand the board should be fine, but i did buy an Asus board for a Pentium 2.4 system a while back that had specific DIMM compatibility which i fell foul of right from the start.

What I'd like to know is... are there people running memory not listed on the Asus page and it runs fine? Please list your RAM so i can look at it as an option. I am looking at 1gb of HyperX PC3200 2-3-2-6 and it would be nice to know that i'm not going to be stuffed around like the last time. Why is the compatibility list so short anyway, that doesn't build up confidence with me in buying this mobo either! Thanks to all that reply :)
 
L

legatech

Member
Aug 25, 2004
56
0
0
from my experience they dont list performance/overclockable memory, just ordinary. Asus is one mb brand that works with all the brand name memory i know. i have the kevse deluxe with hyperx pc3200 memory in it can go up to 2.5 3,3,7 @ 225max stable and 2,3,3,7 @ 219fsb. never raised the voltage higher than specified.
alot of people use memory not listed on their site. but some of those memory manufactures have a motherboard compatibility of their own e.z. ocz
http://www.ocztechnology.com/support/motherboard/
 
A

Aries64

Golden Member
Jul 30, 2004
1,030
0
0
jrosenzweig,

I have an FX-53 939 in my K8N Neo2 running 1 GB of Mushkin PC3500 Level II. While it is not listed on either the Asus A8V Deluxe or MSI K8N Neo2 memory compatabilty lists, it run great. I'm running 2-2-2-5-1T. My Sandra 2004 Memory Bandwidth is 6095 INT and 6053 FLT. I actually had another 1GB of the PC3500 Level II that I pulled out of my machine because with all (four) memory slots filled the Command Rate reverts to 2T. If you go into the BIOS and manually set the Command Rate at 1T the system will not boot. I think I'll put the extra 1GB into my wife's machine.

Also, while I was waiting for my K8N Neo2 939 from Monarch Computers I bought the Asus A8V Deluxe (Revision 1.02A) from Adamant along with my FX-53 939 CPU. The A8V Deluxe ran the PC3500 Level II fine at the same timings of 2-2-2-5-1T . I also have two (2) P4C800-E Deluxes running 1GB each of the PC3500 Level II stuff at 2-2-2-5-1T again.

You probably know this, but the PC3500 Level II has been discontinued due to the unavailability of the Winbond BH-5 chips used in the production of these awesome memory modules. I understand that some other memory manufacturers such as Corsair also used the BH-5 chips. The Mushkin PC3500 Level II is some of the fastest memory ever produced and works great, but it is not the best for over-clocking.

If you want the Mushkin PC3500 Level II memory you will see it on Ebay occassionally. It isn't cheap, though. If you can get it shipped and insured to you for under $360.00 consider that a good deal.

Have fun!
 
J

JeffH5

Junior Member
Sep 5, 2004
1
0
0
Personally I would stay away from this motherboard.

I just put a system together with one it was one of my worst experiences in a long time. First there is no detailed explanation for installing a single SATA (non-raid) onto the M/B. It was by luck and several hours I was able to get Win XP to finally recognize the drive. As it turns out, the drivers are on the ASUS supplied CD, however as I stated there are no instructions about them. Made a driver disk (3.5") and loaded the drivers (F6 Key) while XP was intially loading. What is Asus to cheap to supply a driver disk let alone the instructions on how to do it.

The next biggest nuisance was finding the correct pair of DDR memory modules. During several hours of trying to load XP it turns out the memory was failing causing the Blue Screem of Death to appear. Finally found the correct memory Corsair CMX256A-3200C2PT and had them loaded in A1/B1 dimm slots. All was good XP loaded and system ran fine. Well I was not happy with just 512Mb of memeory so I made a trip to my local computer discounter and bought more of the same Corsair memory. According to the manual you are able to install the identical modules in all four slots. I did, and guess what, the little voice on the motherboard on boot up would complain about "CPU overclocking failure". It did not matter what pair I had in the dimm slots as long as they were only in A1/B1.

Run far away from this borad as possible - it sucks.
 
I

Ironmanstl

Member
Jun 13, 2004
118
0
0

I too have a few questions about memory settings with the A8V

rig:
Asus A8V revision2
athlon64 3800+
1 gig kingston hyperx 3500
bfg 6800 gt
slk-948u

I can run a max of of 210 x 12 so 2520 with no memory adjustments.
To be honest, I dont understand which numbers in the memory timings refer to what
eg/
2-3-2-6

If someone would be so kind as to briefly explain what the numbers refer to what setting in my bios, I'd be grateful. There just seems to be about 10 memory settings in there.
I am thinking this is what is holding me back from overclocking to around 218 to 225 fsb.
Any other suggestions woud be appreciated.

thanx in advance
Iron


 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom