Interesting Tom's article on memory and motherboard compatibility

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Interesting chart showing Crucial RAM as working in all motherboards in the test - something that can't be said about any other RAM module. Also, the Asus board was consistently the most compatible with the widest array of RAM modules.

This was an interesting article and may shed some light on some of the threads posted here (or in the CPU/Overclocking board) regarding new system builds that don't POST. We've already known some of this back with the early 865/875 chipset boards and very low latency RAM. This just confirms past findings with current hardware, plus gives us another "tool" in our arsenal of troubleshooting methods.

Any ideas? Comments?

 

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Actually Crucial had some problems I think in the nForce2 boards when the came out. People were told not to use them, and also crucial was known for great overclocking speeds with their SDRAM but they really dropped teh ball with DDR.

I think it is just recently they have started making some decent DDR.

 

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Well, Crucial's PC2700/3200 RAM hasn't been too exciting, but their original PC2100 RAM seemed a pretty good overclocker.