ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[cmthomson]

Just a note for those considering moving from 2GB to 4GB on a 1.02 board.

I had run 2x1G sticks of Patriot LLK at 4-4-4-12-4 375/750 MHz at 1.95V. Great memory, very good speed for this board. (Still have them.)

Then I upgraded to 2x2G of Crucial Ballistix and was able to run them at the same speed and 1.8V, but they ran hot because of the crappy heat spreaders. Well they recently died after about 4 months of 7/24 folding load.

So I got 2x2G Patriot ELK sticks, rated at 5-5-5-12 1.9V at 800 MHz.

Much to my surprise, the highest FSB that worked was 345. But I was able to switch from 1:1 to 4:5, so now I'm running at 345/863 5-5-5-12-4 1.9V (MCH 1.60V).

I took a small hit in CPU speed, but am getting very good memory speed out of my ancient (collector's item?) P5W DH.