ThomasWH Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 From ASUS website: DDR400 (PC3200), the latest and fastest DDR memory standard, supports bandwidth up to 3.2GB/s to provide enhanced system performance. (Note: PC2100/PC1600 up to 3 DIMMs; PC3200/PC2700 up to 2 DIMMs; 1GB PC3200/2700 with 32 DDR chips up to 1 DIMM only) --- Does this mean I can not insert one piece of Corsair Value Select RAM into this mobo? What does "1 GB PC3200/2700 with 32 DDR chips up to 1 DIMM only" mean? This is the part that scares my buddy! He's getting new RAM for hius ASUS P4S800 mobo! Also, is the maximum amount of RAM for thos mobo really only 1 GB? I don't get ASUS' description of the RAM for this mobo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 12, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 12, 2006 You would need to ask ASUS to clarify their statement. Sorry Chinglish is hard to understand sometimes. But I would suspect they are trying to say that if you install more than one double sided module you would need to run the system at DDR333. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasWH Posted January 13, 2006 Author Share Posted January 13, 2006 Hi RAM GUY, Thanks for your reply! Ok, so what you're saying is that.. This motherboard can in fact run 1 GB of Corsair Value Select PC3200 RAM? I never send ASUS email. They have this insane form that you have to fill out before sending in. You know what I'm talking about if you've seen the form. Just trying to help my good friend Glenn with his PC. He's also upgrading from 256 MB with RAM. Poor people running 256 MB with a XP system in 2005! :p But I am yet to find out how many GB of RAM this motherboard can run max! 1 GB seems so little! Best Regards, Thomas! You would need to ask ASUS to clarify their statement. Sorry Chinglish is hard to understand sometimes. But I would suspect they are trying to say that if you install more than one double sided module you would need to run the system at DDR333. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garvin Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Having perused you Asus manual and having mastered manual speak (i.e. chinglish), this board states that it will support three sticks of pc2100 or pc1600 ram, or two sticks of pc2700 ram or pc3200 ram, or one 1gig stick with 32 IC's on the stick. Disregarding the last entry, as I don't know of any double-side sticks with 32 IC's, and reviewing their next chart , it looks like your best bet would be two 512meg (3200) sticks, as they don't even list a 1gig stick in the chart. One gig is plenty for virtually any home system running Windows Xp in most cases. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasWH Posted January 14, 2006 Author Share Posted January 14, 2006 Doesn't most 1 GB sticks have 64 IC's though? Ah, I'll just get the 2x 512 MB sticks for my buddy. Now it's time to find out which RAM I will use myself! Did you read my long post in the Compatibility section? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garvin Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 As far as I've seen, yes, but there may be some oddball sticks out there and Asus is just warning the user that if you have these 1gig sticks you can only run one. To expand on the Xp ram amount question, in my experience, Xp starts running well at the 512meg point with much less hard drive swapping. At 1 gig, it shines; over 1gig, it attains smaller incremental gains depending on how loaded your system is with background applications and processes and/or when playing the few games out there that are capable of using over one gig of ram. If your system is heavily loaded, the major benefit of going over one gig is system stability. The less hard drive swapping your system has to do the greater the stability. As a general rule, I've always found if you double the amount of ram Microsoft recommends for a particular operating system (from Windows3.0 up to Xp), stability goes up enormously due mainly to the reduction in hard drive swapping. Now on to the Compatibility section to read your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasWH Posted January 17, 2006 Author Share Posted January 17, 2006 I have searched the great WWW many a time and can not find out how many GB the P4S800 motherboard can run as max. 1 GB seems very little! :p Thanks for your help so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garvin Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 According to Asus the max is 3gigs for that board. The Asus link: http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P4S800&langs=09 Unless your running a server, over two gigs would be a waste with 32-bit Windows Xp and could actually downstep a machines performance. Very few programs can make use of the two gigs 32-bit Xp can alot to one program max. Even with a slew of programs running, the most I've ever used was a hair over 1.5 gigs of the 2 gigs total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasWH Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 Wouldn't 3 GB of RAM in that motherboard be impossible to fit? I mean.. As the max config with 1 GB, would be 1 GB, um, or was that only if the 1 GB sticks were with 32 IC's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garvin Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Yes and no. The way I read it; its stating that you could fit three 1gig sticks of pc2100/1600 variety ram into the 3 slots for a total of 3 gigs. The problem is I wouldn't know where to find 1gig sticks of pc2100/1600ram and I would think the speed hit would be terrible. I also believe its saying you could put 2gigs on that board, two 1gig sticks, of pc3200/2700 ram as long as the sticks dont use 32 IC's. You might want to check with Asus to be sure though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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