4 dimms@PC333 on a i865 board?

[SuperSubZero]

I remember hearing that the 400FSB boards didn't particularly like having all 4 dimm slots occupied, and it created additional latency and performance degraded. I have a i865 board with 4 dimms in use with PC333 totalling 1.5GB. I've only used this as a server but I'm converting it to a gaming rig. Will my performance be affected? I could knock it down to 1GB without a problem but I got the RAM so I would like to use it if it will not be a detriment.

I won't be overclocking this rig so that is not part of the equation.

 

[SLee]

There was an article on Firingsquad which suggested this problem, but was not supported by an article from Lostcircuits:

http://www.lostcircuits.com/memory/2gb/

and user reviews such as this one:
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=77909774&m=41900147461

Most likely, there were some problems with the Firingsquad article because the size of the supposed performance loss was massive, it would have been like if the P4 turned into a Celeron or was running on SDRAM.

 

[Tedinde]

I've seen no problem, Sent out a customers computer last week with 4 stick of geil golden dragon 3200 all 4 full.

I have a Gigabyte board here. 875 that has 6 ram slots. gonna see how it does with all full later.

 

[burningrave101]

http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.html?i=1839

Read that Article for information on the best configuratioin to use for 865 and 875 chipset boards.