From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G4i9x-0001K8-TX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:54:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6NHqD8T024300; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:52:13 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6NHqCTQ022183 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:52:13 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so1219783nfc for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:52:12 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fje8FCdolTEnB9WoLp+bPZb6BMGWsgk4tBsuonEs0Mfi+v5w8guO7eYxetkqwZweXw/uCa2A99cfzKaUtKZVqq1ST6UBgmqM4s8t5PDUD8W8Z+oO4C/2VqKmr2xSWS8lu+Si6bu/JBHEv/jL32cweW8+ztkEjrYtITci/netpTM= Received: by 10.49.10.3 with SMTP id n3mr2621519nfi; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?193.123.216.79? ( [212.227.164.166]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id o45sm2329646nfa.2006.07.23.10.52.11; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44C3B799.6050600@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:53:29 +0100 From: Ronan Klyne User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060722) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] upgrade to 939 ~fx60 | am2 ~x2 5000+ References: <200607231545.06524.clip2@gmx.de> <20060723173305.GA30665@localhost.worldcontrol.com> In-Reply-To: <20060723173305.GA30665@localhost.worldcontrol.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 895967bf-dcdc-4b2b-96c0-228c89b65818 X-Archives-Hash: 42a6a1a8e7aa10bdc0794a0824dad782 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Also, due to AMD moving the memory controller onto the processor (and many other subtle things), memory will sometimes behave differently on intel systems... # r Brian Litzinger wrote: > On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 03:45:03PM +0200, Dieter Ries wrote: >> hi, >> >> >> currently i am running my gentoo on a 3000+ with 1g ram single channel. >> >> are there support problems with am2 chipsets? which mb's are the best? how big > > I setup two systems using the Abit KN9 SLI motherboards. > > http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=315 > > It is AM2 and DDR2. I had an Athlon X2 4200 cpu. > > At first I tried using 800MHz Cosair memory. But the system would > not boot. Just beeped the BIOS beep of death. > > I read on some of the gaming forums that others were having troubles > with this motherboard and running memories at their top rated speed. > > As it is a gaming MB every last detail is configurable in the > BIOS. Others had success fine tuning the DRAM parameters for > the particular memory they had. > > Others suggested running the memory at one notch below maximum. > > I.E. 800 -> 667, 667 -> 540, and so on. > > This latter trick worked for me. > > The gamers report the system is quite reliable and I found the same > thing with RAM speed downgrade. > > An interesting problem with running the memory below rated is > how do you get started? > > The BIOS defaults to 'DRAM speed by SPD', so if your 800MHz memory > doesn't work you can't get into the BIOS to change the settings. > > The solution there is have some slow memory laying around to > boot and set the CMOS. > > There where also cases (I tried lots of different memory) where > some memories would boot at their rated maximum but would fail > memtest86. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEw7eZO7n2sgVOSqsRAhdQAKCjaBS5L0i2QrKH5+FFhjD2eZHajQCdHVaP l7XBv+RlJwODoFtWx7TiW78= =0bTr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list