975x PowerUP with four memory banks filled

I'm planning to purchase another two G.Skill memory sticks, and I want to know if anyone have had problems installing four memory banks, and if this has limited in any way the board's overclocking (I don't want to step down from 3 Ghz...)
Thank you.

Quote from: Viktor92 on 08-August-07, 07:51:33
I'm planning to purchase another two G.Skill memory sticks, and I want to know if anyone have had problems installing four memory banks, and if this has limited in any way the board's overclocking (I don't want to step down from 3 Ghz...)
Thank you.
I should have an answer for you in about a week when I have my 2 kits of Mushkin 2048 MB, XP2-6400, 4-4-3-10 Dual Pack (2x 1024 MB) 996523. The Mushkin support team guy told me that I would be able to reach 850Mhz or higher with that memory because they have Micron D9 chips, so I hope he's right about that
I know there not G. Skill, but the ProMos chips on those modules aren't bad overclockers either.
I know that my 4 x 1GB GEIL PC2-6400UDC modules are crappy overclockers because they have lousy memory chips...

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