mspen Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Unfortunately, I did not do the in depth research that I should have prior to purchasing my Asus A8N5X. I briefly read the manual, but misunderstood the part that said "You may install 256 MB 512 MB and 1 GB unbuffered ECC or non-ECC DDR DIMMS into the DIMM sockets using the memory configurations in this section." to mean that I could fill it will 4 Gb off ECC memory. To be fair their compatibility section did not list any memory that could. They do list the Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2 as non-ECC that is compatible. But Corsair's memory compatibility didn't list any memory that is compatible with the A8N5X. Obviously, people are using it. I have seen a few forum entries that discuss the settings. The question that I have is whether I can use 4 Gb of this memory. That would be two matched sets. Or does it have to be four matched sticks? I know that I lose some of the memory due to chipset resource allocation, but I am not worried about not having a full 4 Gb. Asus Qualified Vendors List compatibility just indicates that it does not support 4 Gb of Corsair memory, just 2 Gb. I currently have a couple of sticks of unmatched unknown memory running at 400. I want to do some serious work on this system once it's burned in. I want stable and accurate results. Thanks for any suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 20, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 20, 2006 With this MB if us install more than 2 double sided/Ranked modules it may have to run the memory at DDR333 because of loading on the memory controller! If you want to run 4 Gig I would suggest 2 sets of Twinx2048-3200C2 and set the memory Voltage to 2.8 Volts at Cas 2.5-3-3-7 at DDR333 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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