[Solved] K9N2 Diamond

Can you elaborate for me please? I know I looked at the bios and clocked the ram down from 1.9 to be safe..........could that be the reason some of the other ram isn't posting?

I bought 4x2gb crucial 1.8v 1066 ddr2 from newegg and was getting crash dumps out the butt. I pulled one out and the board seemed to work fine. I installed water cooling on the cpu 2 days ago and decided to do the memory diagnostic with each stick installed individually. 2 of them would not by themselves boot windows or post even. a 3rd still had problems and would boot/post and also seems to work ok with the one good one that passed diagnostics. I was looking at the reviews on this ram and I find them below par but no where near as bad as the skill brand that matched crucial's specs for this ram. I just a minute ago checked MSI's site and looked at the manual hoping it was updated with something you've mentioned but it still says 1.8v and doesn't mention anything higher or lower.

huh? 1 dimm?? really? So your saying I can't run 8gigs of ram in my rig at all??? please please elaborate on that one. I don't think the guy at AMD told me that when i was talking to him, he wasn't sales either just a techy and seemed very knowledgeable. I don't even remember that even coming up in conversation.

Thats not true. Ram choice has no impact on L3 cache. DDR3 is about 5% faster on the phenom than DDR2, but thats not related to the cache.

The AM3 chips work in AM2 boards because the Memory controller in the AM3 cpu's will work with either DDR2 or DDR3. Other than that, their function is identical.

I took a look at your boards manual just to be sure. And the 1.8 volts it listed is just the standard DDR2 1.8 volt spec. As long as the Ram can handle the voltage, the board should be fine. It turns red in the bios because the voltage can damage some ram chips are spec'd for the standard 1.8 volts.

Remember that the one dimm per channel rule only applies to 1066 speed. 4 will run fine at 800.

and if you can try to help me understand even a little better please.

i think that cleared it up for me thank you. I have a somewhat fun request of you if i may. You wouldn't go to newegg or tiger really quick and select the best performing ram for me to buy for my beast of a system. maybe a couple of suggestions, you can link them on here if you like.

Its not really my area of expertise, since I don't get too deep into performance ram. but I can make a few suggestions. I might not be able to post it till tomorrow as its close to bedtime here.

You might want to throw up a thread asking that very question. I'm sure there are a few people here who have a great deal of experience with high end DDR2.

what ever would put my board and cpu to their max potential.

and yes thats a good idea i could post something in the ram section
for suggestions

If I understood you correctly, you currently are running 4 GB's of 1066 stable. If thats the case, I would just stick with that for now. You will only get a small improvement in performance, maybe 5%.

I'm sure you could use that money in a way that would give you much better return. Right now, as I look at what is available, 4 GB's of anything would be at least $100. 8 would be at least 150. Thats a lot of dough for 5% increase.

Like I said though, you might want to gather some other opinions on the topic. But that's what I would do.

If I did buy ram, I would probably go for volume over speed since there are no 1066 modules larger than 2 gb, you would be limited to 4gb. So I would go with 8 gb of DDR2 800.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820104108

IF i did buy. If your 1066 / 4GB is working well, I would hold on to that.

You welcome. Glad I could help.

after reading a few of the reviews i agree.

That also sounds like a good kit

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