Asus A8n-sli Premium Question

tomgofigure · 09-26-2005, 01:37 AM

Well i just RMA'd some ram that was incompatible and while looking at my "ddr400 qualified vendors list" there was the corsair twinx (2 x 1gb CAS latancy=2). On one page it says that it can have only two gigs in dual channel, but on the other page it says you can have 4 gigs in dual channel. This goes for all 1 gb modules. it says only two gigs can be in dual channel on one page, but on the other it says that four gigs can be in two dual channels. Im not going to have four gigs now because that is completelly unnecessary, but i think im going to want to upgrade sometime in the future. So which one is right? can i have four gigs or two gigs?

thanks!

erick0071 · 09-27-2005, 07:23 PM

Does any one knows if this mobo will take 128x4 density chips. non ecc not reg

**Archangel** · 09-27-2005, 07:50 PM

well.. i think what the book means is. you can put 2 1Gb sticks in the mobo for dual channel. so 2x 2Gb sticks wont work.
but since the mobo has 4 RAM slots, you can put in 2 x 2 x 1Gb, so as far as i know, you should be able to put in 4Gb.

however.. this would be a waste of monney i think

tomgofigure · 09-28-2005, 05:35 AM

yea well im not going to do this now... but i plan on stretching the life of this pc out at least 7 years... and who knows! when i got my hp pavillion 8770c, it had 128mb which was way unnessesarry... 128 wont get you very far today

but thanks for the clarification, that makes sense

and eric0071, i would check the manual at www.asus.com because this motherboard has VERY strict ram compatibility... there are like 20 models on the supported ram list... i guess this is my first build so i have no clue what "strict" is but do your homework

09-26-2005, 01:37 AM	#1 (permalink)
tomgofigure New Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 4	Asus A8n-sli Premium Question Well i just RMA'd some ram that was incompatible and while looking at my "ddr400 qualified vendors list" there was the corsair twinx (2 x 1gb CAS latancy=2). On one page it says that it can have only two gigs in dual channel, but on the other page it says you can have 4 gigs in dual channel. This goes for all 1 gb modules. it says only two gigs can be in dual channel on one page, but on the other it says that four gigs can be in two dual channels. Im not going to have four gigs now because that is completelly unnecessary, but i think im going to want to upgrade sometime in the future. So which one is right? can i have four gigs or two gigs? thanks!

09-27-2005, 07:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
Archangel Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Netherlands Age: 22 Posts: 9,886	well.. i think what the book means is. you can put 2 1Gb sticks in the mobo for dual channel. so 2x 2Gb sticks wont work. but since the mobo has 4 RAM slots, you can put in 2 x 2 x 1Gb, so as far as i know, you should be able to put in 4Gb. however.. this would be a waste of monney i think __________________ Don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning.

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09-27-2005, 07:23 PM	#2 (permalink)
erick0071 New Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3	Does any one knows if this mobo will take 128x4 density chips. non ecc not reg

09-28-2005, 05:35 AM	#4 (permalink)
tomgofigure New Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 4	yea well im not going to do this now... but i plan on stretching the life of this pc out at least 7 years... and who knows! when i got my hp pavillion 8770c, it had 128mb which was way unnessesarry... 128 wont get you very far today but thanks for the clarification, that makes sense and eric0071, i would check the manual at www.asus.com because this motherboard has VERY strict ram compatibility... there are like 20 models on the supported ram list... i guess this is my first build so i have no clue what "strict" is but do your homework