4x Double-Sided RAM + K8N Diamond Plus = Trouble?

Sovereign · Post by **Sovereign** » Tue May 22, 2007 11:28 am

I hear that the K8N Diamond Plus isn't designed for 4x Double-Sided modules. I have two double-sided modules as is and am looking to buy two more double sided modules. A friend warned me against this, saying that "you could work fine, you could have random lockups and memory dumps and BSODs or it could just not boot at all" and "you can even have slight math errors from individual memory cells corrupting and never even know it." How true are these statements? Am I "stuck" on 2GB RAM? Or should I not even worry about more RAM at this point?

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:12 pm

The problem isn't 4 double side or dual channel at all. the problem is that the memory controller on that processor type can't support 4 sticks of ram (maybe only dual channel, but thats what I have) running at full speed. I had to lower my ram down to 333 from 400 to make it work nicely.

JohntechUPi · Post by **JohntechUPi** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:47 pm

Run http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-140.zip CPU-Z on your CPU and make sure its an E-6 Core if it is an E-6 Core CPU you should be able to run at DDR400 with 4 modules but you need to make sure the command Rate is set to 2T and you might have to relax the settings if you are using aggressive modules.

Solinari · Post by **Solinari** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:30 am

As far as i know with DDR(1) motherboards there may be an issue with having a certain number of Double Sided DIMM's, it may be that you will have to run them at 333mhz as someone mentioned.

If you don't have a 64-bit Operating System then there isn't much point in having 4GB of RAM because you won't be able to use it all anyway.

I see you have 4GB in your signature, does it run fine?