Well, yes, I know it supports 1066. But found a post on a forum saying that it wouldn't support dual channel 1066 for 4 1gb sticks. Just 2 1gb sticks. Was trying to ask here to know for sure as I have several parts on order already.
Message edited by Seraphic on 10-06-2007 at 04:10:00 AM
I have a P5K-E Deluxe Wifi AP and its pretty mugh the same board minus a few extras Asus puts in.
In DDRs 1066 mode you can only populateeither the yellow rows or black rows dual channel. So you cannot put in 4 1GB sticks but you can put in 2 2GB(4GB total) sticks and it will run Dual channel 1066. They have a "Qualified vendors list" but thats just who they have tested.
So what is the deal with that? What isn't it able to support 4x1gb sticks of 1066 in dual channel? Is it a limitation of asus, P35, or just the Deluxe/Premium? Is it the same for the upcoming DDR2 X38 motherboards?
Does the Deluxe/Premium take 4x1gb sticks of DDR2 800 and work in dual channel?
Message edited by Seraphic on 10-06-2007 at 07:07:10 PM
As for the limitation reason, according to Asus it is the chipset P35 but I am not too sure about that. Intel designed this chipset(bearlake) for support of Conroe and Penryn. Penryn is going to have a base FSB of 1333.
The P35 and the X38 are basically the same chipset but the X38 introduces a few new items such as a speed up for DDR3, PCIe 2.0 and support for 2 true 16x PCIe lanes for better PCIe 1.0 dual cards.
So I think its a limitation of the board really.
As for you question about having 4x1GB sticks of DDR2800 yes it can support it you just wont have the 1066 FSB. Plus make sure you are using a 64-bit OS for sull support and use of the full 4GB.
