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Asus P5K and using all 4 ram slots
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Author:  lobstaMan [ Sun Dec 28, 2008 1:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Asus P5K and using all 4 ram slots
Ok I been out of the pc building world for awhile now so I'm not on the up and up anymore. I have a Asus P5K which has 4 ram slots and right now I'm using 2 of them that have 1G sticks of ram in 2 slots .. I want to upgrade to 4gig total so can I just add 2 1Gig sticks of OCZ value to whats already there? Or would there be perfomance issues? Right now i'm only running XP so I know it will only work with 3 gig but someday I will get Vista to take advantage of the whole 4.
Author:  maverick_brent [ Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:04 pm ]
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shouldn't be any problems, *might* not work in dual channel mode, but it *should*
Author:  lobstaMan [ Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:09 pm ]
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maverick_brent wrote:
shouldn't be any problems, *might* not work in dual channel mode, but it *should*


Yeah that's what I'm worried about .. had that issue with my old system.
Author:  Denty [ Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:12 pm ]
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just have the 2 rams in their right channels and you shouldn't have an issue.

ie: (slot 1 OLD RAM) (slot 2 NEW RAM) (slot 3 OLD RAM) (slot 4 NEW RAM)
Author:  maverick_brent [ Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:49 pm ]
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also with the price of ddr2 ram, why not sell those two sticks and go with a 4gb kit, they can be had for easily less than 100 bucks...i.e.OCZ XTC FATAL1TY OCZ2F8004GK 4GB DDR2 2X2GB DDR2-6400 800MHz CL 5-4-4-18 EPP Kit 2.1v $75 at mysterybyte...after you figure out buying the new ram and the chance it wont work, you might as well sell yours buy a 4g kit and be done with it...
Author:  lobstaMan [ Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:53 pm ]
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maverick_brent wrote:
also with the price of ddr2 ram, why not sell those two sticks and go with a 4gb kit, they can be had for easily less than 100 bucks...i.e.OCZ XTC FATAL1TY OCZ2F8004GK 4GB DDR2 2X2GB DDR2-6400 800MHz CL 5-4-4-18 EPP Kit 2.1v $75 at mysterybyte...after you figure out buying the new ram and the chance it wont work, you might as well sell yours buy a 4g kit and be done with it...


Quite simply I don't have the extra cash or a buyer for the ram i do have .. I thought about doing that but I just don't have the money. I have 45 bucks that I got for xmas from a friend .. just enough for the 2gb of ram
Author:  lobstaMan [ Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:21 pm ]
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Got the ram installed and working. Got a quick question tho .. since XP only sees 3 gig is it still working in dual channel?
Author:  maverick_brent [ Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:53 pm ]
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check with cpuz on the memory tab, it should show what the memory is being run at
Author:  lobstaMan [ Wed Dec 31, 2008 6:16 pm ]
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maverick_brent wrote:
check with cpuz on the memory tab, it should show what the memory is being run at


Forgot about that :lol: Yep running in dual.
Author:  Denty [ Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:19 pm ]
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yeah itll run in dual even if only sees 3
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