Is your 3000+ a Venice?
The Venice/San-Diego is the first memory controller that can handle running
four sticks of memory at DDR400 speeds. Previous cores could only do DDR333
(or was it 2T?) reliably.
If it is a Venice, you won't have any better luck with a Toledo or
Manchester dual core, as they use the exact same memory controller present
in the Venice/San-Diego.
If it isn't a Venice, you can get a 3000+ 1.8GHz Venice model and push it to
2.6 or 2.7GHz, and it should work fine with four modules.
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Klein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'The Hardware List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 4:47 PM
Subject: [H] AMD CPU question
I've had an Athlon 64 3000+ cpu for about 6 months now. It's been a great
system. I'm currently running xp64 as well and they are rock stable.
However, I've had problems getting 4 sticks(2 gigs of ram) to work at the
correct speed. I've read various articles about the memory controller
being
on the CPU, and some of the Athlons having problems.
I'm thinking about upgrading to the dual core chips. Will I have a
problem
with those as well? I'd really like to be able to use all 4 sticks, at
full
speed.
Thanks,
Chris
