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2GB of TwinX 3200XL Pro on Abit AV8 ?


sirhenrythe2nd

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I just ordered the Abit "AV8-3rd Eye" (Rev 1.1) and 2 Kits of Corsairs "Twinx1024 3200XL Pro´s". CPU will be AMD´s "Athlon64 FX-55." In various threads i read that the MoBo will slow down to 333MHz when all 4 ram slots are used. :mad: Other authors wrote that this happens with some Dimms and with some not... So to get the real truth i became finally a member of this forum to ask the the Ram-Guy himself :-)

Is it possible to run these 4 Dimms without problems ? :confused: I know, that i need a powerfull PSU (will be an Enermax701 with 600 Watts) and that OC is not that possible as it is with only 2 Dimms, but i don´t want to OC anyway.

More important to me is just, if the four Dimms will be able to run just fine when inserted, or do i have to modify any values in the Bios or something like that...

 

Thank you very much & regards from Germany, SirHenry aka Alex

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Welcome to the forum!

And yes by default the MB will set the memory frequency at DDR333 when you install 4 modules. But you should be able to run with 4 modules, but you can only run at 2T command rate and you may have to relax the timings to get the system stable with 4 modules. Maybea better hoice would Twinx2048-3200C2 if you need to run with 2.0 Gig of RAM.

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Thank you for your promt answer, RamGuy. It´s not the amount of ram what made me order 4 dimms - it´s just the look of four Dimms on the board; at least by using the version with PRO-Spreaders. So i will downgrade my order to just 1 Kit :[pouts: . But nethertheless : thanks a lot again ! Better to know NOW than being dissapointed with lots of bucks gone with the wind :laughing:

Great work - will be my first place to ask stuff like this from now on !

Regards,SirHenry

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