Bought another Gig for K8N Neo2 Plat.

[BroadbandGamer]

I'm getting another Gig of RAM (2x512) today so I was looking over the manual and noticed that if I use all four DIMMs I'm only going to get DDR 333. AM I SOL as far as getting 400MHz with all four DIMM slots filled? Is anyone here running a K8N Neo2 able to run four DIMM slots at DDR 400?

If I can only get DDR 333 then I guess I'm going to need two new sticks of 1GB if I want 2GB's.

 

[Aenslead]

You will be able to run 4 sticks @ 400Mhz, but it is most certain you will have to losen your timings.

 

[BroadbandGamer]

Does it matter if the times on the new sticks aren't the exact same as the timing on the old stuff? New stuff is 2-3-3-6 and old stuff is 2-3-2-6?

Thanks,

 

[BroadbandGamer]

OK, I've got the new sticks installed. I'm using the timing from the new sticks (2-3-3-6). Everything seems to be working fine. How can I test this stuff out a little? Also, how do I know for sure I'm in dual channel mode?

 

[keeleysam]

it they arent identical (all 4) you can't run dual channel.

 

[BroadbandGamer]

They are identical as far as brand (XMS) and speed (PC3200). The only difference is the timings on my original two sticks is a hair faster. I set the timings in the BIOS to the timings of the new sticks (2-3-3-6) and everything seems to be running fine.

I guess Corsair doesn't sell my orginal sticks (TWINX1024-3200LL) anymore because I couldn't find any. My new sticks are TWINX1024-3200C2.

Anyway, I'm getting ready to run Prime95 and see what happens. I ran the hell out of BF2 and 3dmark nature with no problems.

I just need to know how to check if I'm using dual channel from my desktop. When I boot up my screen says dual channel and lists my memory speed so I think I'm in dual channel.

 

[Budman]

you can use memtest to see if everything's stable.

http://www.memtest.org/

 

[BroadbandGamer]

Originally posted by: Budman
you can use memtest to see if everything's stable.

http://www.memtest.org/

Thanks I may try that later.

I just finished running Prime95 for almost four hours with no errors.