Socket 939 chipsets and 3 ram sticks

[Crusty]

I have 3 sticks of ram, 1x 512mb Corsair pc3200 LL, and 2x256mb Corsair pc3200 LL.

I have heard that alot of boards have issues running more then 2 sticks at pc3200 speeds, and some wont even run with 3 sticks!

Are there any boards that have use AGP and can run my ram? I don't care about any other features, I run SCSI drives, have my own Gigabit nic, and use an Audigy 2 ZS. So I don't need anything with lots of fancy sata/firewire/sound/daul lan. I just want a stable board that I can run my ram at pc3200 2-2-2-5.

I've looked at the MSI NEO board, and the ASUS A8V, but read they had problems with ram 🙁

any advice will be welcome!

 

[Farmer]

MCrusty:

Most models will come with LAN and sound, firewire, sata incorporated in anyway. In fact I dont think any S939 mobo does not have these features.

 

[Crusty]

I know that, but I don't need anything more then just the basics for those features. I don't need 10 sata channels that all support raid, and 50 firewire ports, and 15.1 sound either 😉

So basically those features will not determine which mobo I go with.

 

[Crusty]

Okay, I just read some sites and it seems that I won't be able to run in Dual Channel mode with the ram that I have. So it seems that if i want to run in dual channel I either need to get 4x 256mb 2x 512mb. Hrmm...

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

As far as I know there is no socket939 board that supports 3 sticks, at least officially.

 

[Peter]

3-DIMM configuration is not possible, because it's not symmetric. People who fail running certain 2- or 4-DIMM configurations are mostly overdoing the timings (or the board's BIOSes are). PC3200 standard was originally meant for one DIMM per channel, so if you want to run a 2x2 config, you'll possibly need to relax timings, or even step back a speed notch to PC2700.

 

[Crusty]

Thanks for the info, i'm most likely gonna pick up a stick of 512mb and use the 2x256mb to stay in my old mobo.

 

[Peter]

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