Soyo Dragon Plus! Owners: help please?

[SpyKey]

I am building my first rig, so could I nag y'all with a question?
The motherboard I am using is Soyo Dragon Plus! I have pretty much all components, except memory. I can get my hands on a piece of registered DDR for cheap, but documentation doesn't say what type pf memory to use, besides the fact that it supports ECC. Anyone, please?

Link to a short description of the board.

 

[TheNeck]

dont get registered memory. it does not work on this motherboard.

 

[oakfan]

Why would registered memory not work on this board?
I understand that registered brings an overhead with it, but I thought that any board that runs with unbuffered would run with registered memory.

 

[sygyzy]

I don't think that is true. I am pretty sure registered would work. Costs more and cannot be mixed but it should work.

 

[nitrousninja]

I'm using two unregistered sticks of Mushkin 256DDR I got from newegg.com. What is registered memory and what makes it different?

 

[SpyKey]

OK, I guess I'll pick it up today and will give it a shot, just to settle the argument.

 

[RagingGuardian]

If you plan to overclock you won't be getting too much with registered memory and it's best not use any sort of cheap DDR with this board. I learned that the hard way. Go get yourself some Mushkin, Crucial or anything in their league.

 

[Gorillaz]

Though cheap and Crucial never go in pairs.

 

[karna]

I have the Dragon Plus along with 256MB of Mushkin PC2100 and 512MB of Samsung PC2100.
Also have the Athlon XP 1700+.

I used to overclock back in the celeron days but lately I dont see the point. The relative overclocking
results are not that much, even if you're 200mhz faster.

Now if I could overclock my DSL, THAT would be nice, but as it is, i'm getting around 150KB/sec so nowhere to go there.

This motherboard does kick some major ASS. I am typically an Abit loyal, but this mobo has great on-board 3D sound,
NIC and Raid(better used as additional controllers for more devices). Its nice having NO PCI cards. I do wonder though,
at what rate does the sound and nic communicate with the rest of the mobo? Would it be at PCI speeds? 33mhz?

 

[kursplat]

ok please .. got to know why is the registard memory no good for overclocking. i have 384 mb of mixed brand, registared memory,and it seems that i had no problem getting to 150 mhz and stable.

soyo dragon+
athlon 1500+ @1500 mhz (10x150 fsb)
using the onboard sound and nic
gforce 2 mx400
384 mb ddr sdram