Quote Originally Posted by Cob View Post
Has anyone been able to run 8gb in any of these boards? Or even 4 sticks?

I've just bought 4 x 2gb of OCZ Platinum XTC PC2-8000 (£123 delivered. Cracking value for the UK) and my P35-DS3P rev 1.0 won't boot with all 4 sticks installed. It's fine with any 3 sticks installed at 1000mhz, but it won't boot when I insert a fourth, even at 800mhz.
I ran 4 sticks of 2gb for a total of 8gb on the P35-DS3R and overclocked it to 400mhz and 450mhz fsb.

6400 ram
A-Data basic ram (red heatspreaders, 5-5-5-15) went to 960Mhz at 5-5-5-18
OCZ SLI (OCZ2N800SR4GK, 5-4-4-15) went to 1000Mhz at 5-5-5-15
Patriot 4gb kit (PDC24G6400ELK) went to 960Mhz at 5-5-5-18
Patriot 4gb kit (PDC24G6400LLK) went to 960Mhz at 5-5-5-15 (would go to 1000Mhz but wasn't stable)
Patriot 8500 (PDC24G8500ELK) could not get it to boot to advertised timings, finally got it to boot to 5-7-7-15 at 1066Mhz, I am still playing with this kit and I give an update once I figure it out.

I am running Vista Premium x64 and I have come to the conclusion that the difference in 4Gb vs. 8Gb is negible except maybe in benchmarks and then it is only around 3-5% gain. I will say it was pretty cool not using a page file in Windows, but I am not sure it really did anything. Since I wasn't running any x64 applications, only x32 my conclusion is that 4Gb is plenty with the current software and that running 2 sticks is better than running 4 sticks, especially for overclocking.

I hope that helps everyone.

Utnorris