Need fast advice changing board

[CALV]

Hi all.

Got an asus a7V8x last week, and some 3200 corsair xms, and a 2600+ 333 chip, had a prob getting the board to see 400Mhz ram speed, it would only see this (or give the option in bios) if I clocked the fsb down from 166 to 133 - thus seing the cpu as a 2000+ not a 2600, not a lot of use really, I WILL be overclocking it and so unlocking the cpu, but why should I loose all that fsb speed!!
So, its going back tomorrow, and Im going to change it, I looked at maybe the asus A7N8X but I see it has only 3 ram slots- I was under the impression I needed the paired memory to get best performance- how will this work with 3 ?. I have an abit kt7aR which I have had since that was one of the best boards around, and wouldnt mind another abit, the only ones I see tho are either legacy free, or 333's apart from maybe the nf7 or nf7-s, does anyone have any input on any of these? I DO like the Qfan control on the asus since Im not watercooled anymore

All suggestions/comments welcome

TIA

CALV

Oh, and it needs to be one of THESE since thats where I got it (I always reccomend people DONT go to scan but I got me new chip last weekend and "NEEDED" the board and ram immediatly.




If they squeeze olives to get olive oil, how do they get baby oil?

 

[jihiggs]

yes, the dual ddr or whatever you want to call it only works with pairs, in the case of the board you mentioned, you can only do this with slot 1 and 3.

my computer is so fast, it completes an endless loop in less than 4 seconds!

 

[CALV]

bloody stupid that a lot of boards have 3, you would have thought theyd be in pairs.

If they squeeze olives to get olive oil, how do they get baby oil?

 

[sterlon]

To get dual ddr support you need to have the dims in slot 2 + 3. These are the blue slots. This has repeatedly been discused in this forum.

OH crap its on fire again