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Mainboard and Memory
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Posted by: katiej
I was wondering if someone could please point me in the right direction.
I am looking at buying an Asus P4P800 Deluxe Mainboard but I am unsure if the memory I have will run on it or do I have to buy more memory, I currently have 3 x 512Mb PC3200 DDR 400Mhz sticks. Will this run on the Asus board or do I have to change?
All help is very much appreciated.
Posted by: nocode
Yes, your current memory will work.
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Memory 4 x 184-pin DIMM Sockets support max. 4GB PC3200/2700/2100 non-ECC DDR SDRAM memory
Dual Channel Memory Architecture
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Posted by: The-AoD
If you're going to set it up for dual channel, only use two of the sticks and set them via how your motherboard says to. Make sure the sticks are exact copies. 
Posted by: katiej
Thanks for the info!!
But between the 2 reply's that I have received I am now more confused then ever. Call me ditzy but one reply seems to say that yes the board will run on all 3 sticks but the other reply to my understanding say's it will only run on 2 of the sticks. (What am I missing here?)
ps. all 3 sticks were brought together and are the same make etc.
Brief history: I am currently running an Asus P4B266-SE mainboard, I upgraded my video editing software which to run at max performance requires 1.0gb memory and 3.06 processor, went to the computer shop for new ram as the board is supposed to be able to take up to 2Gb was told that yes all 3 sticks giving me a total of 1536mb would run no problem on the board, guess what only 2 work, (and no I can't get a refund) so have now decided to upgrade the board and cpu to a 3.06 to accomodate the software but still have the problem of the ram that as far as I understand that only 2 of the sticks will work.
How can they say that the board will accept up to 4gb of ram, what is the ram sticks configuration to do this? eg. 4 x 1gb sticks or what
Thanks
Posted by: The-AoD
It'll work with 3 sticks. But to get the full potential of the Dual channel, you'll either want to use 2 sticks, or buy a 4th stick. You "could" run with just three, but it "offhands" 512mb of the ram.
Either way, it'll work either way you want it to. Just to get the most performance with the dual channel, it's smartest to run 2 or four sticks together.
And yes, to have 4gb, you have to run 4 1GB sticks.
Posted by: Da Weef
Well three sticks don't have to mean you lose dual channel. When the combined amount of RAM (and speed of course) in the first two slots is equal to the amount (and speed) in the third slot, you can stll use dual channel. But there is a slightly bigger chance on errors.
If I understand correctly you now have two working sticks of 512 Mb pc3200, so if you get a 1 Gb pc3200 stick for the third slot you could run it at dual channel. Although getting 2 more identical sticks is a nicer solution.
Good luck anyways
Posted by: redwench
what the board will run, and what will give you the best performance are two different things. see the above posts 
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