[thebanik]

Originally Posted by Buckeye

I remember asking this long ago and was told it should make no dif using 2 sticks of a triple channel kit on a P55 system.

I usually purchase triple channel kits so I can use these sticks on both setups. Marketing might want you to believe that they are different and there for you should buy a different kit for each setup so they sell more RAM.

I think what we see when clocking RAM on a P55 vs X58 is the fact you are using 1 more or 1 less stick of RAM. With 3 sticks timings become more critical than with 2 sticks. Remember when we used to clock on older setups that we generally went for high OC's with 2 1gb sticks on a platform vs a 24/7 rig that uses 4 2gb sticks.

Clocking memory is a fine art, so many settings that generally most do not know how they effect things.

As motherboard/CPU/Memory setups all act different spending some time with Memtest, adjusting settings and seeing the effects with our benching programs is worth while.

Yup completely agreed, and I actually knew this but it was my impatience and since I feel at home here hence without even trying much I posted the question. After Neuro's article played around a bit and it seems there is some sort of link between QPI/DMI and Ram. I was setting QPI/DMI to the lowest multi and then trying to OC ram but looks the simple logic of x58 where Ram multi has to be double or more of QPI is not true? Had to set the QPI to a fairly high multi which made it work...

Back to 2200Mhz CL 8-9-8-24, will play around with sub timings later.......