Quote Originally Posted by linflas View Post
hate to say this, but OCZ ram has not been good to me, all the kits I have had over the last year I have returned.

My suggestion, grab 4GB of one of these. I use the Gskill, they are very, very good, not as much luck for me with the crucial, but I pushed the crucial harder than I have pushed the Gskill. They use the same D9's, but not sure about binning.

Price is high on them now I see, at least on the EGG

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=2GB+(2+x+1GB)

The crucial's are great priced though $59 bucks after MIR for 2GB can't complain, they are the same chips as the Gskill, assume the Gskill is better binned is all I can say.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146565

RMA the OCZ and get what you can for them on ebay, try the settings I posted with the crucial/gskill and you should be fine. Hell you might even make a few bucks with the price of that crucial right now
So, you're suggesting I run 4x 1GB sticks rather than 2x 2GB sticks?
There has been a lot of talk that 4x 1GB sticks is very hard for a chipset to deal with. My attention has been pulled in a lot of different directions lately, so It's getting harder for me to keep up with what's going on. I have seen the changelogs on the BIOS files that say that stability has been increased running 4x DIMMS, but the OCZ support threads say that latency issues in the chipset and certain ratios make running 4x 1GB sticks very difficult.

I have a set of CORSAIR Dominator 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1142 (PC2 9136) that i can try. Not sure of its module make-up. Is this respectable memory? I usually use it when ringing out an Intel chipset becuase of its high bus speed capability. Haven't really considered it for the 680i - even though it says EPP, the Striker doesn't pick up on EPP profile from what I can tell.