Dual channel memory in 4 slots?

[Impetux]

I've been meaning to upgrade the system memory on my motherboard for awhile now (it's a P4P800). I could have sworn I read somewhere that this model had some tricky problems running dual channel memory if you put it in all four slots.

Currently I've got 2, 256 sticks of pc3200. Would I be much better off going with 2 sticks of dual channel 512, or would it be comperable to go with 4 sticks of 256?

Thanks in advance for the help!

 

[sumrtym]

Two sticks of 512. Boards sometimes have problems providing a clear clock signal to four sticks and keeping in sync. That may be a failing on the P4P800, I don't know.

That being said, I'm running 4 512 MB sticks in a GA-8KNXP rev 1 at 2-2-2-6 @ 2.8v at 400 Mhz. Was lucky I guess. Normally you have to reduce the timings a lot to keep from getting memory errors.

The only reason I went 4 sticks is I wanted 2 GB of RAM, and sticks of 1 GB with tight timings aren't readily available, or affordable.