This is a spinoff of a question that I posted in the General Forum.
General Forum Post About Approved vs Performance Memory
I'm looking for the right memory for this board and the following review completely confused me on what type of ram to buy.
No Winbond CH-5
After flashing back to the currently latest 1002 production BIOS, all issues went away as long as we were using Level-II DIMMs (Winbond BH-5) however, there are still some compatibility problems we noted. The most drastic issue was that out of 10 DIMMs using Winbond CH-5 chips, not a single one would POST. This issue was common to both BIOS versions tested. BH-5 based DIMMs, on the other hand had no problems at all at least not with the production BIOS, regardless of whether we were running one or two 256MB or 512MB DIMMs at the most aggressive settings (256 MB: 2:2:2, 512MB: 2:3:2). The only issue in that respect to keep in mind is that even with BH-5 based DIMMs, it is necessary to set tRCD to 3 if 2 x 512 MB modules are being used. We found the best stability and performance at:
Paragraph Regarding Winbond BH vs CH
Any translation for the newb would be appreciated
General Forum Post About Approved vs Performance Memory
I'm looking for the right memory for this board and the following review completely confused me on what type of ram to buy.
No Winbond CH-5
After flashing back to the currently latest 1002 production BIOS, all issues went away as long as we were using Level-II DIMMs (Winbond BH-5) however, there are still some compatibility problems we noted. The most drastic issue was that out of 10 DIMMs using Winbond CH-5 chips, not a single one would POST. This issue was common to both BIOS versions tested. BH-5 based DIMMs, on the other hand had no problems at all at least not with the production BIOS, regardless of whether we were running one or two 256MB or 512MB DIMMs at the most aggressive settings (256 MB: 2:2:2, 512MB: 2:3:2). The only issue in that respect to keep in mind is that even with BH-5 based DIMMs, it is necessary to set tRCD to 3 if 2 x 512 MB modules are being used. We found the best stability and performance at:
Paragraph Regarding Winbond BH vs CH
Any translation for the newb would be appreciated
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