Re: 4 x 1GB on P5B Deluxe

Previously Young Mandy <nomorespamplease> wrote:
Current Set Up

ASUS P5B - Deluxe - JUST STANDARD SETTINGS IN BIOS (no overclocking etc)
Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz CPU
Antec Sonata II Ultra Quiet Midi
2 x 1Gb Geil Value DDR2 2.0GB PC6400 Dual Channel memory kit (2 x 1GB)
800MHz (5-5-5-15) +Aluminium heat spreader, ATI Crossfire Ceritified
Nvidia 7600GS 256mb DDR Graphics
250GB Seagate SATA II 7200 (already had a 160GB one)
Windows Vista Business 32 Bit

I have the opportunity of buying additional memory (2 x 1GB) exactly the
same as my existing (Geil Value DDR2 2.0GB PC6400 Dual Channel memory kit (2
x 1GB) 800MHz (5-5-5-15) +Aluminium heat spreader, ATI Crossfire Ceritified)
at a really really good price......practically a give away.

I often hear about motherboards not recognising the 4th slot (ie it wil only
recognise 3GB instead of 4GB).

That is nonsense.

However due to limitations of the PC architecture you can only use
something like 3.0-3.5GB of 4GB with typical operating systems.

Will this be the case on this board?
If it is the case is it still worth going ahead and getting it, although it
will only show 3GB

Depends. Do you have slowdowns because of too little memory?

Arno





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