ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[DrSlump]

Falkentyne:
I've tested your settings and they does not produce good results to me.
My memory modules are designed to work@2.0-2.1V, and even @2.15V, they becomes really hot.
Seems like there is a phisical limitation of my mainboard that prevent to use all four slots without problems. In the other hand i see that most people uses 4 bank config without any problem, even with their quad g0 overclocked @3Ghz and more, with no voltage triks.
So i got two questions:
1) Is there a bios version that works better with 4 banks?
2) Is there a tecnical explanation of the 4 banks problem?

(P.s. I removed two stiks from the black slots and now i'm going @3Ghz. I've launched 4 sessions of super 32M pi: two of terminated with not exact in round result so, maybe, maybe the problem is not only the four banks but olso a bit unluky cpu..??)

[Falkentyne]

Falkentyne:
I've tested your settings and they does not produce good results to me.
My memory modules are designed to work@2.0-2.1V, and even @2.15V, they becomes really hot.
Seems like there is a phisical limitation of my mainboard that prevent to use all four slots without problems. In the other hand i see that most people uses 4 bank config without any problem, even with their quad g0 overclocked @3Ghz and more, with no voltage triks.
So i got two questions:
1) Is there a bios version that works better with 4 banks?
2) Is there a tecnical explanation of the 4 banks problem?

(P.s. I removed two stiks from the black slots and now i'm going @3Ghz. I've launched 4 sessions of super 32M pi: two of terminated with not exact in round result so, maybe, maybe the problem is not only the four banks but olso a bit unluky cpu..??)

DrSlump:
I only suggested my settings to determine if it was the RAM/stress on the MCH that might be causing the issue. I should have suggested removing 2 sticks as well, but you already got to that So indeed it's something else holding you back.

In my experience, using 4 sticks of memory ALWAYS limits your FSB considerably (even more so on the FSB limited 975x), but you seem to have a different issue. I hope you can get it solved.