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Motherboard upgrade to support 4 RAM chips?

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So I want to upgrade parts of my current system in the future. I have 1 gig (2 x 512) OCZ Gold RAM [2,2,2,5], pc3200 and want to buy another set of this ram because I need 2 gigs for F.E.A.R. I want to keep the tight timings so I need a motherboard that supports the tight timings and all four of the chips. Is there a board that does this? My current board would run them at T2 and I want to keep them tight at T1. I also want to move to SLI in the future....so having two PCI-e slots would be nice, but not required. I also plan on getting an Athlon dual core in the future. I enjoy the speed of my current PC build, but would really enjoy 2 gigs of RAM at these tight timings without being forced to run at T2.

-SANE
 
The times are slower....and I hate going through that process......but I might if I have to.

-SANE
 
you have a slight problem there, the T1 vs T2 with 4 sticks on the AMD plataform is a CPU issue, not a motherboard issue, its a limitation with the integrated memory controler on the Athlon64,

there have been rumors from nvidia in the days where socket 754 was introduced, that they planned to disable the integrated memory controler and use an on board one so they could provide dual channel memory interface with a socket 754 CPU,

in the end it didnt come true, and i suspect it was becuase the Athlon64 suffers a serious preformance loss if the on chip memory controler was disabled and a onboard one was used,

and AMD skinning Nvidia alive :p

if you want T1, your going to have to go shopping for some good 1GB modules,

btw, if what i hear about the ATI chipset boards is true, i wouldnt trouch them with a 10 foot pole,
theres a reason why intel implemented crossfire on their own chipsets insted of relaying on ATI´s chipsets
 
Intel just wants people like me to have the option to go for SLI/x-fire. My next chipset will be e7525 most likely. ATI nor Nvidia have products in that market so it would be nice of Nvidia and ATI to allow their products to work on such boards.
Then again I could always go for S3 somethingchrome :P
 
yea, nothing like the equivalent of a couple of 9600 in sli, lets not forget Via´s high quality control, excelent design, bug free operation, and the flying pigs that keep circling around their design center, :laugh:

was a guina pig for via with the KT266, not happening again.

btw, talking about good chipsets, ati has had its own quality and bug problems with their previos chipsets, just search around the forums, thats what i ment with the intel comment, i think they also rolled back on the plan to use ATI chipsets for their low end boards.

something i dont get is why nvidia is not cooperating, the nForce 4 intel Edition has shown itself to be somewhat problematic, and in their place, id rather sell two 6800 or 7800 cards then a motherboard, you put a sticker on it that says ¨runs best on a nForce 4 based motherboard¨ to encorage people to buy a nForce 4 motherboard aswell, but theres more profit to the video cards then the board.
 
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