Question on Asus K8V SE Deluxe for dual channel operation

[imported_chrisbtx]

Chalk this down to ignorance, but I'm kinda lost...

I have the Kingston PC2700 ram (2x512, and it overclocks to ddr400 no problem on my older athlon board) that was from the hot deals forum for 25 bucks AR, and I just build up my Athlon 64 3200+ and Asus K8V SE Deluxe cpu and mobo from the AMD Employee Purchase Program.

Now comes the part that I'm lost on. How do I set the memory to dual channel? Does anybody know what slots they are supposed to go in? The manual doesn't exactly say from what I've read. The first memory slot is blue, and the next two are yellow. Does that tell you what slots need to be used for dual channel? Also, after the memory is in the right slots, what other settings in the bios do I need to do to get it running dual channel DDR400?

I'm also lost in the bios settings as to the latency for the ram. Right now I have everything but the CAS timing set to auto (CAS is at 2.5), and I wanted to set them to 3-4-4-7 (that's what the guys in the hot deals forums said is the best settings), but I don't know what the three numbers after the CAS latency stand for, and there are about 10 memory timing options in the bios (ie TRAS).

Thanks a ton for any help y'all can give!

 

[Bumrush99]

Chris, this chipset does not support dual channel mode. The AMD 64 3200 has the memory controller on the CPU which is limited to single channel DDR.

In terms of the other questions, I don't know either, this board is very confusing, especially once you try to overclock it. With my decent OCZ memory, I can't overclock even 1mhz with DDR 400, I have set the divider to 5:3 (PC 2700).

PM me if you find any other information on the web to help.. Thanks

 

[Bumrush99]

Got home today and upped the memory voltage to 2.6 and went from auto to cas 2.5.. This gave me first clean boot at 210fsb, 2310... Haven't tried 220 yet, but at least I'm making progress.

Are there any good programs besides memtest to test the system stability? I had some errors last night when installing creative drivers that seemed memory related..

 

[Bar81]

Prime95 is the best way to test system stability.

 

[imported_chrisbtx]

Originally posted by: Bumrush99
Chris, this chipset does not support dual channel mode. The AMD 64 3200 has the memory controller on the CPU which is limited to single channel DDR.

In terms of the other questions, I don't know either, this board is very confusing, especially once you try to overclock it. With my decent OCZ memory, I can't overclock even 1mhz with DDR 400, I have set the divider to 5:3 (PC 2700).

PM me if you find any other information on the web to help.. Thanks

That sucks... I didn't know that. Oh well, I'm just tryin to figure out why my PCMark04 scores seem to be so low at 4284 (my friend has a p4 3.0 HT with the same ram and hard drive I have, and he gets 4479 on PCMark04). I've seen benchmarks on various sites showing PCMark04 scores quite a bit higher than me with this processor....

In case anyone is curious this is organs of the rig:

A64 3200+ Newcastle
Asus K8V SE Deluxe
1 GB Kingston
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80 GB 8 meg cache
Radeon 9800 Pro

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: chrisbtx

Originally posted by: Bumrush99
Chris, this chipset does not support dual channel mode. The AMD 64 3200 has the memory controller on the CPU which is limited to single channel DDR.

In terms of the other questions, I don't know either, this board is very confusing, especially once you try to overclock it. With my decent OCZ memory, I can't overclock even 1mhz with DDR 400, I have set the divider to 5:3 (PC 2700).

PM me if you find any other information on the web to help.. Thanks

That sucks... I didn't know that. Oh well, I'm just tryin to figure out why my PCMark04 scores seem to be so low at 4284 (my friend has a p4 3.0 HT with the same ram and hard drive I have, and he gets 4479 on PCMark04). I've seen benchmarks on various sites showing PCMark04 scores quite a bit higher than me with this processor....

In case anyone is curious this is organs of the rig:

A64 3200+ Newcastle
Asus K8V SE Deluxe
1 GB Kingston
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80 GB 8 meg cache
Radeon 9800 Pro

I suggest some real-world testing, like UT2004 Demo Botmatch. I mean hey, did you buy the system to run PCMark on it, or to frag with? You tell me

 

[imported_chrisbtx]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
I suggest some real-world testing, like UT2004 Demo Botmatch. I mean hey, did you buy the system to run PCMark on it, or to frag with? You tell me

Frag, baby!!! Anyways, that's next on the list of things. I had already purchased Far Cry when it came out, as well as BF: Vietnam and UT2004... and a few more recent ones... and I've got some demos like Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising and whatnot.

I still need to install all of the above, so I'm not going to have a fun night for another couple of hours or so...*sigh*

I know benchmarks tend to not matter when it comes to real world performance (see 3dMark03), but that score being that much lower than the P4 is still disheartening. Oh well, time to cowboy up and frag my worries away!