DDR Memory and Folding

[rstarr]

Is anyone using a DDR based motherboard on their folding system?

I tried it with a Soltek SL-75DRV2 which uses PC2100 ram. I had two 256 meg sticks of Cruial ram with this board and the system would not fold. It would just sit there on the first WU 1/100 for over 14 hours. Reinstalled folding twice and the same result.

All my other systems are using SDRAM without a problem. This was the only DDR ram based system I tried to fold with but couldn't.

[Gyro77]

I am running just fine on a DDR system. What OS are you running? I am running W2K SP2, 512MB Crucial PC2100 (2x256), XP1800+ at stock speed, and a MSI K7T266 Pro ver 1 motherboard. Are you trying to launch it with a shortcut with commanline switches or anything?

[wireman]

I'm running the Epox DDR board with 512MB of generic PC2100 (2x256), XP1900+ at regular speed, on Win XP. Have not had any problems so far on the Epox.

I have had problems with Abit KT133A & T-bird 1.33's using Win 98 locking up while running f@h2 at various times on headless boxes.

[rstarr]

I'm using Win98SE. But I found out today that DDR memory and Solteck SL-75DRV2 motherboards don't get along to well.

I alos have an Abit KT133A raid board and I have no problems with it.

I think I'll have to take the Solteck board off-line and go back to a SDRAM based system. :(

[wireman]

hhmmm, thats too bad, the Epox socket A DDR board is cheap and works fine, can you return the other mb?

[rstarr]

Originally posted by wireman
hhmmm, thats too bad, the Epox socket A DDR board is cheap and works fine, can you return the other mb?

I probably could return it. I bought it directly from the Solteck Service Center here in Seoul, South Korea. Only thing, I would have to trade "down" to another Solteck board, probably with SDRAM. I'm also using a Solteck SDRAM board, SL-75KAV and it kicks butt on folding.

Maybe that's what I'll do. :)

[jkeating]

I'm running a ECS K7S5A (another cheap mobo) with AMD 1700+ (no OC) and 256 MB generic DDR and Win98. Runs great.

jkeating

[wireman]

sounds like some good options!

cp

[Larry Loen]

It has long been claimed that F@H and G@H are pretty much MHz sensitive and that the memory speed isn't all that important. This is not true of other projects, so this is a claim specific to F@H.

I don't know how important it really is (maybe 10 per cent or less???) but that could be a factor in how you want to change things if you're mostly running the machine for folding.