The most F'ed up thing about Nforce

[AaronP]

is that it runs better with 2 dims that 3! I bought 3 256 meg PC2100 sticks, and from the Aces review, it seems to me that there is a 9% decrease in speed in going from 2 dims to 3! How lame is that. The Nforce runs better with 512 megs of ram than it would with 768 megs!

Someone, tell me if I am wrong, I don't think I am.

 

[mztykal]

...I think the most fvcked up thing about nforce is that...

...IT'S NOT FVCKING HERE YET.

 

[AaronP]

thanks for making a post that had absolutely nothing to do with mine, and wasn't helpful at all.

 

[AGodspeed]

AaronP, where did you read this information. If you can quote Ace's, then I'll believe it.

I'm too lazy to go look at the article yet again.

 

[LintMan]

I think that's fairly common for reduced performance with extra ram above 2 dimms. Some MB's require you to use registered ram if you use more than 2 DIMMs, and that's slightly slower that regular ram. Other boards limit the ram to less agressive timings if you have more than 2 DIMMs.

IIRC, on my 8KHA+, I'm pretty sure the manual stated that CAS is limited to 2.5 if you have 3 DIMMs, (but I'm not sure now if I saw it there or in a review of another MB and I don't have the manual with me to check now - sorry)

 

[Budman]

Time to start calling it Nfarce again. LOL

It's their first time making a chipset,it was bound to be buggy at first.

give them time and i am sure in a few new chipset revisions it should be better.

bottom line is dont buy Nfarce now or the joke will be on you.

 

[Pabster]

The TwinBank architecture only works with 2 DIMMs. I don't see why that's such a big deal. A lot of boards today still only have 2 DIMM slots. The reason why performance decreases when you drop in the 3rd DIMM is because it is unable to create two separate channels. You could use 2 512MB PC2100 modules.

 

[jeffrey]

Nvidia said from the get-go that the benefit from using the dual-channel architecture would come greatest when both channels were inhabited with the same speed and SIZE of memory. That means a 256mb stick in dimm 1 and a 128mb stick in dimms 2 and 3, or other sizes that match equally.


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[LordOfAll]

Well

aces ran 2 tests with different memory setups. Both tested just the memory sub systems. in one it lost about 1%, in the other 9%. Both memory configs on nforce were better than the kt266a + athlon XP. At best i would call this inconclusive.

 

[Zebo]

<< I think the most fvcked up thing about nforce is that... >>



<< ...IT'S NOT FVCKING HERE YET. >>



Well said.. Whats with this "releasing" a chip in june and no mobos four months later? I really needed this baord today when I bought a system for my bro... but no I had to buy video card, santacruz, NIC, modem and the MB. Next dowload drivers (lots of em) assemble and support this for a guy who surfs the net... This is waiting is getting old.

 

[Sugadaddy]

<< ...I think the most fvcked up thing about nforce is that...

...IT'S NOT FVCKING HERE YET. >>




hehe, so true...

 

[aka1nas]

The 3rd DDR slot is shard by both channels, and effectively deactivates twinbank

 

[jeffrey]

Have a linky for this????
"The 3rd DDR slot is shard by both channels, and effectively deactivates twinbank"

The first dimm is on one 64bit channel and dimms 2 and 3 are on another 64bit channel. How do you figure that the third slot can share both channels if it's not connected to it?



The problem I think with all slots filled is that the testing was done with 3 128mb dimms. It should have been done with one 256mb stick in channel 1 and two 128mb sticks, one each in 2 and 3.

sp

 

[Sugadaddy]

To use twinbank, you need equal amounts of ram in each channel...