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I got this board two weeks ago, and i updated it tp F2 bios, but what can i say about it? may be i should say, "This Motherboard Is SXXK!!!!!! Don't Buy It!!!!! Unless Gigabyte Giving A Good Explaination And Solution For This, Otherwise, I Will Never Buy Gigabyte Product Anymore, I Trusted The Brand Name Of Gigabyte, But What I Got After Paying About USD150??? Is a RUBBISH Product!!"
Ok, you may think I am a bit too much to speake like this? Want to know why, because this motherboard can never support more than two DIMM with DDR333 in any memory time setting, not even DDR270, anything that more than DDR270 with 2 DIMM, it will never boot into windows!! I am so piss of this, here you may think that this is my memory module problem, but the motherboard have no problem when working only 1 DIMM at DDR410(Kingston DDR400 256MB CL2.5 running at DDR410 2-2-2-5), it run perfect! but when you plug in another DIMM(same model), you will have trouble even running at ONLY DDR300!!!!! It really disapoint me.....
I tested 1 DIMM 1 Bank Kingmax TinyBGA DDR400 CL2.5, the maximun stable speed is running at DDR310 (because of two bank problem??? i don t know, but this board looks like cannot support anytime use of more than one bank!)
I tested 2 DIMM 1 Bank APACER DDR400 CL2.5(Samsung Chip), the maximun stable speed is running 2 DIMM at DDR275, and 1 DIMM at DDR400 CL2-2-2-5(Stable, but you have only 256MB, so slow...)
I tested 2 DIMM 1 Bank Kingston DDR400 CL2.5(Winbond Chip), the maximun stable speed is running 2 DIMM at DDR266, and 1 DIMM at DDR410 CL2-2-2-5(Stable, fast, but again, you have only 256MB...)
I tested all kind of configuration, try all different memory timing and voltage, taken out all unneccesary devices(only a MSI Geforce4 Ti4200), dasabled all the onboard feature like RAID, USB2.0, LAN, SOUND.... but useless....
I did send an email to Gigabyte last week, but until now, still no reply... everyone in Gigabyte having a Goldern Week now????
And yes, I saw a review this morning from Anandtech, looks like Anandtech also having problem to make this board running 2 DIMM at more than DDR266...
And I can tell you, I am so piss of it, i will try to contact the shop, i want to cash return this board, or at least change to other brand, because it is so expensive, it cost about 40% of my monthly salary(I am from Malaysia)!!!!
but honestly, one good thing is it can run 1 DIMM Kingstone DDR400 256MB at DDR410 CL2-2-2-5, at this speed, my P42.4b will run at 2.9G, cool.....!
My system configuration:
P4 2.4B (Volcano 7+ HSF)
Gigabyte GA-8PE667Ultra (I am so regret to choose this )
MSI Geforce4 Ti4200 64MB DDR
Sound Blaster Audigy
1 Quantum 20GB 7200RPM HDD
1 Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM HDD
1 SONY 16X DVD
1 Artec 241240 CD-RW
and final word, i really hope Gigabyte can solve this problem before i send this board to shop and ask for refund...at least some explaination....