Originally posted by: army
i find it odd that so many are having issues with this board.
it was a super easy setup, very easy to work with. running an X2 3800+ and i'm overclocked at 2.7 right now and it's stable.
from what i understand it's not the board that's picky about ram, but rather the memory controller of the processor?
i used corsair xms2 ddr2 800 and have never had problems from the get go. running 2GB and soon getting 2 more.
i would recommend this board to anyone.
Doesn't sound like you read much of this thread. I have to raise a flag here for several reasons.
Firstly, you gave absolutely no details about your overclock. There's absolutely no way you could run that memory at DDR2 800 with the voltage options on the board. Secondly, you didn't address any of the major residual issues folks are having with the board - i.e. do soft reboots work for you? Did you need a BIOS flash out of the box?
I doubt that you managed to somehow evade all of these problems and still hit a 2.7 GHz overclock that runs two instances of SPi 32M and SP 2004 (or equivalent) Blend Test Stable, and still run your memory at a higher than stock rated speeds with soft reboots.
From what I've been able to gather, the problem isn't the memory controller, it's the memory voltage options. 1.95v is the board's max, which won't cut it as lots of DDR2 800 is runs at 2.1v - corsair runs at 1.90v, but that extra 0.05v doesn't exactly give you a lot of headroom. Of course, if you could tell us more about the memory controller, that might help us out.
If you read this thread in its entirety and visit the M2N-E boards at AsusTek, you can see that recommending this board to anyone is just bad karma.
@Napface - stick with DDR2 that runs at 1.90v, and you should be fine at stock. I'm starting to think that running the memory at a 2T command rate would help stability. I'm going to play with it some more after awhile and I'll let you guys know what I figure out.