scheherazade (4) Jan 30, 2007 - 11:25 am » Edited on Jan 30, 2007 - 11:25 am
I'm pretty surprised they ran this in full screen. It seems really obvious that the windows GUI would be off [since... a)it makes sense, b)that's what xp does now]
Bring on the windowed mode!
When I was trying to get 4 gigs of ram working I couldn't get any motherboards that would run it at full speed.
Not till the a8n32 sli did my 4 gigs show up at 400mhz
Usually it would refuse to go over 333, and if I forced it the system would be unstable.
I tried a couple boards, and read up on it. Turns out that 'ram speed dropping when installing max amount supported on your mainboard' is normal, and is caused by some capacitance issues stemming from the memory controller driving the memory modules directly.
I found out the solutions were :
1) use buffered dimms
2) use a mainboard that has better electrical characteristics.
I tried the 8 phase and it worked. (I also had the a8n sli premium, almost the same board basically, but 6 phase and 1 less southbridge).
The other option was registered dimms, but 1 gig modules registered and NOT ecc are super hard to come by.
