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pointreyes
07-17-2003, 11:27 PM
It appears that I might have sold my ASuS A7N8x System. So, I'm now trying to figure out if with the remaining hardware if I can build another dually. I will also be posting this in the AMD forum because I'm talking dually not Intel or AMD brand specific. I have two sticks of Corsair PC3500 512Meg each. However, I also can move those sticks back to my Canterwood and use the PC3200 ECC RAM that I currently have on that board (512 Meg each of the two sticks).

So what boards could hand either of these sticks? Note that I am partial to IWill duallies for Xeons and MSI for AMD duallies. Wish there was an Opteron that would use these sticks but alas those boards are using 144-pin memory.
ThugsRook
07-17-2003, 11:36 PM
do you mean run? ....or run @ pc3500?


looks like all the Xeon and Dual Xeon boards use

Chipset: Intel E7505 or E7501
FSB: 533/400 MHz
DDR: 266/200 MHz
pointreyes
07-18-2003, 12:36 AM
I mean be able to run. I used these PC3500 sticks on the Granite Bay I used to have but going from an E7205 to an E7505 is a different story.
ThugsRook
07-18-2003, 12:43 AM
ah ic ~ you want 1st hand verification.

those Xeon boards are nasty looking :deviltail

think you could pin mod them for default 667fsb? :rock:
pointreyes
07-18-2003, 12:54 AM
Originally posted by ThugsRook
ah ic ~ you want 1st hand verification.

those Xeon boards are nasty looking :deviltail

think you could pin mod them for default 667fsb? :rock:

:lol: 667fsb :eek2: Well, this was the board to get for that type of stuff and it happens to be an IWill. I sure do like my IWill MPX2 MP2400 dually. :) Here's the IWill Xeon board I'm checking out:
http://images10.newegg.com/productimage/13-129-127-05.JPG
ThugsRook
07-18-2003, 01:01 AM
just look at that badboy :deviltail

...and thats a small one :!: :eek2:
eva2000
07-18-2003, 01:02 AM
are those pens sticking out of the board hehe :)
pointreyes
07-18-2003, 01:25 AM
Originally posted by ThugsRook
just look at that badboy :deviltail

...and thats a small one :!: :eek2:

Yup. Small enough to fit in my CoolerMaster ATC-201 case. :) And those caps are huge. My MPX2 has a lot of 2200mf caps-not sure what the cap size is on this Xeon board. Here's a picture of my current dually (since it's an AMD, I will not deface :rolleyes: this Intel section with the picture on the post :p ):
http://www.2cpu.com/Hardware/mpx2/mpx2-frontal.html