Where does the 8RDA+ stand w/ 3500 RAM?

[muzz]

Originally posted by Daniel ~
Corsair is RMAing it's ram and updating it to work with the Nivida chipset or replacing it with RAM that will.

Really Daniel? I mean I didn't see that, although I haven't checked the house of help since early this after.. I did hear something about new modules for NF......... wonder if anything different besides going against the Jedec standard ( spd values ), cuz if it's just spd values, that wont do any good, as I set it myself anyway.

[mookydooky]

OK!!!

Here's what I did and what happened.

First, I went into the BIOS and set the FSB to 133 to get it ready to swap the memory. Original timings were 2.0-2-2-6 Then I turned the computer off.

Then I took the old 256MB XMS3000CAS2 out and replaced it with the new 512MB XMS3500CAS2.

At the same time, I also swapped video cards. Took out a GF4200 and replaced it with a ATI8500.

I turned the computer back on and waited til it booted back up.

I rebooted and went into the BIOS and changed the FSB back to 200 and set timings to 2.0-2-2-4

Saved to CMOS and rebooted.

Then I opened a browser. Went to www.aoaforums.com. Looked up this thread and started typing.

Like I said, I tend to get lucky with this kind of thing. Anyway, I have to eat dinner now so I'll start raising FSB again a little later after I eat.

Basically, NO ISSUES WHAT SO EVER!!!!!

[SYNeR]

give us results!

[Daniel ~]

Originally posted by muzz


Really Daniel? I mean I didn't see that, although I haven't checked the house of help since early this after.. I did hear something about new modules for NF......... wonder if anything different besides going against the Jedec standard ( spd values ), cuz if it's just spd values, that wont do any good, as I set it myself anyway.

We have a post somewhere...about 4 or 5 days back...with a link to the corsair forums in which "The Ram Guy" says that's what they are doing.

[Daniel ~]

Mooky, they may have worked their magic on their RAMs by now...or your just lucky! ":O} Glad for you either way!!

[mookydooky]

I'm pretty sure I'm having power issues now. My 5V line is dropping to the 4.8 range. I guess the tighter timings and the additional RAM is having an effect. I can get up to 210 if I drop timings down to 2.0-3-3-7. I'd rather run 2.0-2-2-4.

[mookydooky]

Originally posted by mookydooky
I'm pretty sure I'm having power issues now. My 5V line is dropping to the 4.8 range. I guess the tighter timings and the additional RAM is having an effect. I can get up to 210 if I drop timings down to 2.0-3-3-7. I'd rather run 2.0-2-2-4.

EDIT: Does anyone know whether a Radeon 8500 uses more power than a GF4200?

[Caper]

Not more??
Corsair XMS are rated at 217 2.0-3-3-7.
My stick behaves the same way, strange.
With latest Bios I am able to run 210/2.0-3-3-7 no more.
With previous Bios release I was able to run 211/2.0-2-2-4.
I am on my way to RMA my stick since it doesn´t run rated speed but it migh not be the RAM??

The strange thing is I am able to run the board 238 fsb if I run mem async and also with previous release I had the mem async at almost 230 2.0-3-3-7.
I must try if this is the case with the Bios I now have.

Pretty strange if running async(+/-) would prove the mem to be stable ~230 and motherboard even more.
When running sync only 210.

I will try to max out the mem again by async.
Tomorrow go over to a friend and try his stick here.

Muzz on the other hand has no problem running 230+ fsb synced with his XMS3500C2.

[SYNeR]

hmm.. i hope i have as much luck as mookydooky :/

[DEZMOND]

I got my new stick of 3500 corsair back from new egg today,works great.

[Caper]

Originally posted by Caper
Not more??
Corsair XMS are rated at 217 2.0-3-3-7.
My stick behaves the same way, strange.
With latest Bios I am able to run 210/2.0-3-3-7 no more.
With previous Bios release I was able to run 211/2.0-2-2-4.
I am on my way to RMA my stick since it doesn´t run rated speed but it migh not be the RAM??

The strange thing is I am able to run the board 238 fsb if I run mem async and also with previous release I had the mem async at almost 230 2.0-3-3-7.
I must try if this is the case with the Bios I now have.

Pretty strange if running async(+/-) would prove the mem to be stable ~230 and motherboard even more.
When running sync only 210.

I will try to max out the mem again by async.
Tomorrow go over to a friend and try his stick here.

Muzz on the other hand has no problem running 230+ fsb synced with his XMS3500C2.

Found the problem
I am now able to run high fsb synced.
Because I want all to notice this I start a new thread about it.

[SYNeR]

so, correct me if I'm wrong -- but most problems seem to be solved by configuring the RAM manually in the bios?

[Caper]

8RDA+ has so many options in Bios, It takes a while to learn all the settings.

[Aron Hajde]

I built an entirely new system using the 8RDA+ and a single stick of 512 mb, Geil PC 3500 Ultra Platinum series. After having nothing but problems for the last 3 days, I finally test the DDR using Memtest-86 V3.0, and it had more than 20,000 errors as opposed to 0 errors with my Crucial PC 2100 memory from my prior computer. I will be RMA the Geil stick. If this is any indication of the Geil quality, I will not buy more of it. We'll see how they deal with this return under warranty at OCsystem.com

[Galifrey]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.fa...k%202.6ghz.jpg

13x199 with 2 sticks of Corsair 3500xms manually configured to 5-2-2-2 at 2.5v....

Cant argue with that....

Anything over 199 and 3dmark bugs out says I havent completed enough tests.... weird...

Should come out at more than 16k