Does Kingston HyperX DDR have problems running in Dual DDR Config?

[kehi]

Hi, I know this has probably been brought up before, but I did a search and couldn't find anything here on the topic. Please do not flame me.

I have heard that the ram mentioned above has problems on certain nforce2 boards and 875 based ones, but is their a list of boards somewhere that have problems with this ram in Dual Channel DDR? Thanks for the help

 

[Lord Evermore]

I haven't seen any mention of problems. If you've "heard" about problems, ask the sources you heard it from in the first place. There should be no reason for it to be incompatible, and I don't think it would be very popular if it was.

 

[bgeh]

nah, i don't think so
there was a slight problem with HyperX PC3500 running on nforce 2 mobos, but it has been fixed

 

[Krk3561]

HyperX is working great on my 875P board. I haven't seen anyone with problems with HyperX and Canterwood. But there have been problems with Corsair and Canterwood.

There were known conflicts between the nForce2 chipset and Kingston HyperX, but I dont know if it still exisits. My friend is running HyperX in his NF7-S V2.0 and is not having problems.

 

[pelikan]

Works great for me: A7N8X, HyperX pc3500.

 

[CraigRT]

works great for me on m Soltek NForce2 board. I love my Hyper-X 3500!

 

[Ilmater]

While I don't have Kingston (I'm not a huge fan, but they're not bad), I have heard of MANY people that use Kingston in their nForce2 boards that don't have troubles.

I think you're good.

 

[Bill]

I'm running two 512MB CAS2 HyperX DDR400 sticks in an ASUS P4C800. Fabulous memory, great price, and overclockable too! BTW, my rig has a P4 2.4B (533) @ 3.06GHz (680) and the RAM is at 425 MHz (850 MHz DDR) CAS2.5.

Bill

 

[deathwalker]

I'm running 2/256 sticks of HyperX PC2700 in a Abit NF7-S mobo with a XP 2800(barton) & ATI 9700 pro...for the most part it runs great..however...i do get occational memory address errors in C&C Generals when playing 8 player maps...EAgames always points the finger elsewhere when there games mis-behave....I have not yet been able to determine what is to blame, the memory or the game. Memory is a bit too expensive to be going out and just arbitrarialy replace it everytime your system mis-behaves. I do sometimes wonder if I should have gone with the PC3200 instead although I'm conviced that for basic system stability your better off running your memory syc. with the fsb..which makes PC2700 the right match for a Barton core processor.

 

[gplracer]

Yes there is a problem!!!!!!!!!!! It seems to affect the hyperx 3500 and the newest nforce2 stepping. The problem exists if you are planning on running dual channel mode over 20fsb synch.

Here is a copy of a letter from kingston:

Thank you for contacting Kingston Technical Support. This Abit NF7-S board
uses Nvidia nForce2 SPP chipset, and from our testings done in lab, Hyper X may
not be compatible with nVidia nForce2 SPP chipset , when 2 pieces are installed.
One piece should work, 2 pieces will mostly likley fail. You may consider using
our regular parts that are compatible with this board: KVR266X64C25/256
(DDR266), KVR333X64C25/256(DDR333), and KVR400X64C25/256(DDR400).

Please let me know if I can be of further assist.

Regards,

Jane Cheng
Kingston Technology Far East Co.
+886-3-5666860 direct
+886-3-5789502 fax
jane_cheng@kingston.com.tw or
technical_support@kingston.com.tw

quote:

We are working closely with Kingston regarding this issue. So far, the problem seems to be a incompatible issue between the Hyper X and the newer stepping of the North Bridge. I can run ANY other PC3500 modules up to 217Mhz FSB =434Mhz DDR @ 2-3-3-6 without any problems on the NF7-S v2.0.

Kingston is working on this issue with NVIDIA right now and we are waiting for a fix from them.

AFAIK, Hyper X has the same issue with other motherboard manufactures as well.