I am have trouble with using 8 gig of ram on my P5Q Turbo board.
I get a BSOD when tasking the system ( running COD4 and installing from a CD). I can reproduce this issue with OCZ 1066 mem or Kingston Hyper X 1066 ram.
I have :
650 PS
Q9550
EVGA 9600 GT OC
1 Seagate and 1 WD 500 gig drive (sata II)
1 Sata DVD/CD Burner (Samsung)
8 gig DDR2 Kingston 1066 ram (KHX8500D2K2/G2)
Go into the Bios and manually set all of your timings and voltages to the maker's recommended. Ensure the Command Rate is set to 2T, and in the advanced options: Ensure tRFC ("Refresh to Activate Delay" - sometimes named differently) is set to 54 or greater.
Also - 8GB is a LOT of memory, you may need to accept that your board won't run it all at 1066.
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I will give your suggestion a try. It is looking more and more like 4 gig is all this board will run. Thanks for your help. I will let you know how it goes.
I will give your suggestion a try. It is looking more and more like 4 gig is all this board will run...
Have you tried running the 8GB at 800Mhz? I know my Mobo (DFI LP P35 T2R) will happily run 4GB at 1066, but is much less than happy doing that with 8 (though in this case I could make it work). But it bugged me that I had to push the board and front side buss as hard as I was in order to run that much memory that fast. So I dialed the RAM down to DDR2 800, and have been running nice tight cas 4 timings for the better part of the last 2 years.
So - Food for thought: You might want to try DDR2 800, instead of the 1066 you currently have. I promise you, you'll only be able to tell the difference in artificial benchmarks.
Message edited by Scotteq on 08-07-2009 at 05:21:18 PM
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My OS is XP 64. So 8 gig should be utilized. Although I don't think using 4 gig instead will my any noticable difference. I will try your options out this weekend. Thanks.