I’ve a spiffy Striker II Formula motherboard. Based on the qualified vendor list for RAM, it seems that the board will not take more than 2 gig of 1066 mhz or 4 gig of 800 mhz RAM. Has anyone else found this to be an issue or a stable way around it?
With 1066 mhz ram, the board is not spec’d to use more than two of the four ram slots.
With 800 mhz ram, the board can make use of all four ram slots.
With 1066 mhz ram underclocked to 800 mhz, the board becomes more flakey than a box of day old pastries. This leaves me with two usable 1066 mhz 1 gig Crucial Balistix and two of the same back in the blister packaging.
Personally, I’m dumbfounded that a motherboard meant for professional gamers and meant to be run with 64bit multiple core processors (Q6600 on my board) can’t make use of all ram slots and remain stable and is not qualified for more than four gig of 800 mhz ram. Vista 64bit alone is looking at 1~3 gig of ram for the kind of heavy workload I normally put on my Linux platforms; host OS + 1~3 running VM and whatever other tasks I have on the go.
4 gig of ram will at least give me a bit of use of the system until I can eventually replace the motherboard when budget permits again. Has anyone out there tried a pair of 2 gig 1066 chips with this motherboard?
