I am about to buid another newer system and wanted to move up to 8 gigs of ram.

Some people are telling me that when I put in all 4 sticks I am going to have problems?
Any truth to this and if so is there away to avoid it ?

Thanks in advance
Scoob

Depends on motherboard model and ram speed. You may have to set the ram manually instead of the board detecting it but it should be ok unless it's fast ram like pc8500 which may not run at full speed on all boards.

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1100t on M5A99x-EVO with 2x4gb and 6870 running Win7 on Force120 ssd in Corsair 600t cooled by H100. Folding for team 34106

i have run 8gb of crucial ballistix tracer with a p2 940 and 955 and found no problem what so ever.. board was an m3a79t

here were my results from everest. (sorry i didnt record the cpu speed of the 940 i think they were at 3.8ghz)

x4 940
fsb 230 1:2 ddr2 460mhz 4-4-4-12-24 @ 2.1v (920mhz) ganged

read: 8908mb/s
write: 6957mb/s
copy: 10070mb/s
latency: 51.5ns

1080mhz 5-5-5-15-24 ganged
everest
read: 9156mb/s
write: 7793mb/s
copy: 11068mb/s
latency: 49.3ns

1100mhz: 5-5-5-15-24 ganged
read: 9288mb/s
write: 7835mb/s
copy: 11316mb/s
latency: 48.6ns

x4 955 @ 3.825ghz 900mhz @ cas 4
read 9111MB/s
write 7519MB/s
copy 10153MB/s
latency 50.9 ns

im just about to use 8gb or ddr3 ram< its in the post lol

the 790x is a good chipset, its identical to the GX just without the IGP so the chances are it would be fine running 8gb of ram, infact i would hazard to say that you may even be fine running at 1600mhz+ if its one of the latest asus evo boards or gigabytes

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