Anybody have 4 GB (ram) in their system ?

Hi,

I read some people are having problems with the an8-sli-premium motherboard
when trying to use 4 memory sticks.

I am considering buying this motherboard because it has enough room for air
flow for two dual slot gtx 7800, 512 MB cards.

However I also want my system to be ready for 64 bit computing, like windows
vista in the future.

So who on these newsgroups is 64 bit ready ? and is already running 64 bit
linux or windows 64 bit or beta versions of windows vista with 4 GB or
memory ? !!

(I am also interested to hear about any other motherboards being able to use
4 GB/4 memory sticks in practice ! )

Bye,
Skybuck.

Skybuck Flying wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I read some people are having problems with the an8-sli-premium motherboard
> when trying to use 4 memory sticks.
>
> I am considering buying this motherboard because it has enough room for air
> flow for two dual slot gtx 7800, 512 MB cards.
>
> However I also want my system to be ready for 64 bit computing, like windows
> vista in the future.
>
> So who on these newsgroups is 64 bit ready ? and is already running 64 bit
> linux or windows 64 bit or beta versions of windows vista with 4 GB or
> memory ? !!
>
> (I am also interested to hear about any other motherboards being able to use
> 4 GB/4 memory sticks in practice ! )
>
> Bye,
> Skybuck.
>
>
At work we have a Thunder K8QW (S4881) with 2 optrons an 8gb ram DDR
3200. running debain. We also have more power but thats the one I know
what's in it

>> (I am also interested to hear about any other motherboards being able to
>> use
>> 4 GB/4 memory sticks in practice ! )

I have an MSI GNB Max with P4 3.06GHz and 4GB dual channel DDR RAM.


Tom Lake

Tom Lake wrote:
>
> >> (I am also interested to hear about any other motherboards being able to
> >> use
> >> 4 GB/4 memory sticks in practice ! )
>
> I have an MSI GNB Max with P4 3.06GHz and 4GB dual channel DDR RAM.

Do you get the full 4GB in Windows?

In my experience, there's no motherboard out there today designed for
non-workstation chips (i.e. non-Xeon / Opteron) that works 100% - and I
mean 100% - stable with more than 2GB of memory.

The chipset design prevents the full 4GB being available, and populating
all four memory slots generally takes the FSB down to 333MHz. Windows
stability is also flaky.


Odie
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>> I have an MSI GNB Max with P4 3.06GHz and 4GB dual channel DDR RAM.
>
> Do you get the full 4GB in Windows?
>
> In my experience, there's no motherboard out there today designed for
> non-workstation chips (i.e. non-Xeon / Opteron) that works 100% - and I
> mean 100% - stable with more than 2GB of memory.

Windows reports 3.5GB RAM and the GNB Max *IS* 100% stable.
The chipset is the Intel E7205 server chipset with a 533MHz FSB and can
only use up to DDR 2100 but with the dual channel configuration, that gives
the CPU all the bandwidth it can use anyway. Using faster RAM wouldn't
speed up the processor at all. I've run it 24/7 for about two years now,
only rebooting after new software installs or updates

Tom Lake

"Odie Ferrous" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Tom Lake wrote:
>>
>> >> (I am also interested to hear about any other motherboards being able
>> >> to
>> >> use
>> >> 4 GB/4 memory sticks in practice ! )
>>
>> I have an MSI GNB Max with P4 3.06GHz and 4GB dual channel DDR RAM.
>
> Do you get the full 4GB in Windows?
>
> In my experience, there's no motherboard out there today designed for
> non-workstation chips (i.e. non-Xeon / Opteron) that works 100% - and I
> mean 100% - stable with more than 2GB of memory.

I've been reading about that 'glitch' some myself. Linux 64 bit and XP Pro
x64 are able to because of the increased 'natural' limits of 64 bit code.
For the hardware end, I think quite a number of the system boards are
designed to use the 4 gigs. That's a cheap enough check I'll be doing
that sometime soon, like a month or two.
McG.
>
> The chipset design prevents the full 4GB being available, and populating
> all four memory slots generally takes the FSB down to 333MHz. Windows
> stability is also flaky.
>
>
> Odie
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> Retrodata
> www.retrodata.co.uk
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