Optron165 + Dual Channel

[sswilson]

Anybody had experience with Opties? Are they really picky when it comes to what kind of ram they'll run dual channel in?

Looked over a system today that will run the mem in single mode, but refuses to post with the mem in dual channel slots.

I tried a different set of ram (cheap kingston ddr400) with the same results.

Slapped in my 3700 and had no problems getting dual channel up and running.

I'm thinking it's a bios problem, but more than willing to accept advice/suggestions.

[cdn_Madrach]

A freind of mine is running one with OCZ platinum and no troubles at all...as a matter of fact it oc's pretty good:). My guess would be a bios update(fingers crossed lol).

[Supergrover]

My opty ran just fine in DC, but after updating my bios with my x-2, evga NF-41 my mobo would not run DC, it would post and boot to windows but if it made 20 secs in windows thats pushing it. I reflashed back to the previous ver and it went away, tried it with mushkin redline 4000 and ocz plat EL both no go, I did not swap out my x-2 though as t ran fine to Begin with.

So yes I'd do a BIOS update first off.

[b1lk1]

I would blame bios. I had 4-5 Opty 165's and never had problems with any specific type of ram.

[sswilson]

Might be the board then.

He tried a flash (he went backwards.....shudder......) with no joy.

It's a MSI K8N nF4 neo plat (7125) and if you look at the Bios update history it appears that they pulled one of their "let's start using a completely different code that will allow us to convert other boards' bios' to this one" tricks so he went back to the old format.

He's going to try the opty in my Ultra-D to see if there's a chance that the mem controller on the chip is at fault.

[slugbug]

Running an Opteron 165 on a DFI SLI-DR with 2gigs of Corsair TWINX2048-3200PRO and all is well.

[grinder]

no issues here:
Opty 165 + eVGA NF4 SLI + Corsair XMS3500LL Pro

forgive my stupid question but the ram is in the proper slots for dual chan right?

[sswilson]

Yeah, that's why I brought my 3700 over.

We verified that it had no problems with dual channel on the single core cpu.

The board posts with the opty + memory in single channel slots. It just refuses to post with them in dual channel slots.

[lcdguy]

i run my opty with 4 sticks of OCZ GX XTC Gold Heatsink color.

[ebdoradz]

running my opty @ 2.8 with OCZ Gold GX XTC @ ddr511 in DC and i didnt have any trouble

have you try to put the ram in 2T instead of 1T, my venice single core refused to work in 1T