THG Puts 13 Bleeding-Edge Memory Modules, 14 Mobos To the Match-Up Test

Shuttle AN50R - NVIDIA nForce3 150

BIOS: AN50S025

The insurmountable difficulties caused by using different memory modules are minimal in the case of Shuttle. The Samsung DIMMs did not like this board at all unfortunately; in the case of modules from TwinMOS, we experienced fatal errors for Prime95. When using an Athlon64 with CO-stepping, the Infineon DIMMs also failed to function with a clock rate of 200 MHz or DDR400.

Apart from three memory types with incorrectly read timings, the overall result is positive: in total, we were finally able to operate 10 different memory products reliably.

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Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.