What memory should I use with a Nforce2?

[Celstar]

According to memory compatibility on nforce boards, it accepts up to PC3200 DDR. Would it be possible to use PC3500?

If so, would it make any difference in real world performance to use PC3500 over PC3200?

 

[First]

Originally posted by: Celstar
According to memory compatibility on nforce boards, it accepts up to PC3200 DDR. Would it be possible to use PC3500?

If so, would it make any difference in real world performance to use PC3500 over PC3200?

As long as you run your PC3500 Corsair memory at 400MHz with your nForce2 board then it can be considered "officially" supported and you should have no issues. However, there's nothing stopping you from running your PC3500 memory at 433MHz (official PC3500 speed), it's just a question of whether it'll actually work.

To give you an idea of how well certain nForce2 boards perform memory-wise, I've been able to run as high as 444MHz on one nForce2 board.

 

[mechBgon]

Evan, still watching for that nForce2 review you guys have cooking.

 

[l33t]

tom's got one out

http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q4/021111/index.html

 

[Celstar]

thanks for the heads up! http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q4/021111/index.html

 

[Soulkeeper]

that was a nice overview of those 3 boards

the asus board is nice all around (cept i wish it would allow more voltage ranges for vcore and vmem)
i like all the voltage settings on the leadtek board but other than that i don't like the board (no clock mult settings)
the rounded cables that come with the chainteck board are cool but still the board isn't good enough for an enthusiast overclocker

one thing that makes me wonder tho is how they say you can set the agp bus at 66-100mhz
so basically you can lock it at agp 2x or agp 3x ?? weird they should allow you to lock it at agp 2x 4x and 8x

also i didn't see any info about the alledged pci lock
in other reviews tho i saw them get the fsb well over 200mhz so i am still kinda wondering what the pci clock is doing
if anyone knows about that ?

that corsair xms pc3500 mem is looking good

another thing that i am wondering is if you can read from the on-die thermal diode from within windows or only from the bios
anyone know if these nforce2 boards allow that ?

funny how you always want a little bit more out of stuff...