Theo Band wrote:
Ben Mohilef wrote:
Overclocking the E6600 worked with the Corsair 800Mz memory, locked up randomly under load with slower memory. 4GB is all the P5B Deluxe will take.
Funny, I was advised to buy a ASUS P5B-VM since I need 8MB memory. That would mean each of the 4 slots a 2GB DDR2 module. My local shop suggests me to choose TWIN2XP2048-6400C4 (Corsair) but that are two modules of each 1GB. I downloaded the ASUS manual and it tells that 8GB memory is possible with 2GB modules but in the QVL only 1GB modules are mentioned.
I did a quick search on the internet, but couldn't find any module sized 2GB occupying a single DDR2 slot.
Background is that I want to have a motherboard that is capable of 8GB for CAD applications but my feeling is that this is not the right board to use. So is 8GB possible at all?
I suspect Tyan would have such a board, and you could find yourself using Xeon or Opteron.
Probably the Tier 1 vendors also have ready-to-run workstations, not necessarily IA32/AMD-64. IBM's pSeries would be worth a look.