Recent content by Condor

dekruyter, Thanks. That G.Skill RAM looked very attractive to me, as well. Then I found cases where people had problems running 8GB of G.Skill on my board and G.Skill expressing concern about it being possible on a board that old due to stressing the northbridge, etc. By contrast the...

After a couple hours of additional research I decided to go with some Kingston HyperX RAM. Of the systems I found with my MB and 8GB RAM those with Kingston HyperX seemed to have the least (no) problem even with a little OC. The above RAM is CAS 4 and a good enough price. I expect all will be...

Bill & Ryan, The points about memory controllers being between the CPU and RAM go to the heart of my question. Thanks. There is plenty of air being sucked across the RAM so cooling should be better than in many or most other systems. The only thing left seems to be compatibility and I...

Yup, unclewebb, I did the same. Searching 4GB kits I found plenty of highly rated RAM in the $50 to $60 range. Now my problem is deciding which to go with for this board. As I'm finding out, guaranteed compatibility is no guarantee of stability over the long run.

Vermit, Been running with a UPS (Conext 900AVR) since day one to guard against power quality issues as well as power outages. But good suggestion. Thanks.

TGA, The P5WDH Duluxe uses the 975X chipset. This is my third MB. You could be right about about an incompatibility between Ballistix and the MB design. Until recently both Asus and Crucial techs insisted there was no compatibility problems between the two. When Crucial replaced the 2.2V...

Interesting. I got Ballistix because, at the time I got the board, all the reviews and comments here seemed to suggest it was the best. In any case the last two times RAM was replaced it was with the new 2.0V version of Ballistix. Crucial has always replaced the RAM. But their techs feel...

My RAM keeps dying! Being Crucial Ballistix it should hold up fine but I've replaced it six+ times and the newest stuff is starting to go again. Nothing is overclocked. RAM is run at recommended settings. I've replaced the MB (Asus P5WDH Deluxe) twice, replaced and upgraded the power supply...