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Good Socket A mobo that has 4 ram slots?

BigFatCow

BigFatCow

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Right now im running an old k7s5a in my server, and although its stable it is slow. When i upgrade my mobo i want to get one that has 4 ram slots so i can add 2x512ram sticks later so i will gave 2 gigs. It needs to have atleast 5 pci slots and 1 agp, and im pretty sure the nforce 2 mobos have the fastest pci bus so I would prefer it had a nForce 2 chipset (correct me if im wrong here). Anyone have any good suggestions? It needs to be 100% stable. Just by looking on newegg i found 2 gigabyte boards, here and here. Are these stable boards? I've never owned a gigabyte board.


Another thing is when i get the new ram how bad is it to mix 2 different types or ram? The ram I have now is this', but theres other ram thats cheaper, would it be bad to mix the two?
 
Personally I would never buy a Gigabyte board after the hell they put my friend through.

As long as it is pc3200 it shouldn't be a problem.
 
Originally posted by: Cawchy87
Personally I would never buy a Gigabyte board after the hell they put my friend through.

As long as it is pc3200 it shouldn't be a problem.
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What kind of hell did they put your friend through?
 
big fat cow, it may be better if you get a 3 Ram module board and sell those 2 ram sticks you have now, and get 2 value ram 1 gig memory modules, you won't have any performance penalities, that usually happen with ALL 4 ram module set ups.
 
Best to trade it and get 1gb sticks. The more sticks of RAM installed, the less stable the system becomes. It is to do with the timing and power requirements for running so many memory modules. DDR400 is unstable and incompatible at the best of times and I personally don't use anything more than DDR333.
 
The few older Socket A mobos with 4 RAM slots that I'm aware of are based on the old AMD chipset and two Tyan mobos (S2495AN/ANRS) on the KT400 chipset and even the later production runs of the Tyans have only three sockets (though the place is still there for a fourth). Generally if you fill more than two slots, you have to clock down at three modules and at four modules you must use Registered RAM (ALL modules have to be Registered, can't mix = expensive).
. The newer mobos that support dual-channel DDR (either nVidia or Via KT880 based) should have no problem using two pairs of modules in dual-channel mode. I have a new Abit KW7 winging its way to me from Z-Z-F as I type. There are some nice KT880 based mobos out right now from Abit, Asus, Asrock, MSI, Soltek, Soyo et al. Check 'em out! And you don't have to buy special pairs of RAM either - I have some generic PC2700 DDR from Outpost.com that are supposed to work fine in dual-channel mode. I'll soon find out... I'm going to try my Kingston Value RAM in DC mode too just to see what happens.
.bh.

Rain, rain GO AWAY!!!
 
Yep, PC3200 is only meant to run at one DIMM per channel, and PC2700 at two per channel. Registered RAM overcomes this. I think most socket A boards you'd find with four DIMM slots would be dual CPU boards. And I don't know about one chipset having a faster PCI bus than any other - they're all 133MB/s.
 
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