4 x 512 MB ?

More and more games are coming out which benefit from having more than 1 GB of memory. Since most people are upgrading from 2x512 MB to 4x512 MB we wanted to test if this board might be able to run four 512 MB modules at 1T timing.

As many of you know the DFI LanParty NF4 non-Expert has major issues running four 512 MB modules at 1T, no matter the timings - usually the system doesn't even make it to the POST screen.

Samsung TCCD

We used 4x512 MB G.SKILL F1-4400DSU2-1GBFC PC4400.

With a setting of 2-2-2-5 the system felt very instable, but usually made it into Windows. Relaxing the timings to 2-3-3-5 1T @ 200 MHz did the trick.


Overclocking potential was not much, but it was there, at above settings we reached 212 MHz.

Winbond UTT-BH5

To test if Winbond UTT-BH5 memory works in 4x configuration, we used 2x512 MB OCZ Gold GX 3500 and 2x512 MB OCZ Gold GX 3200 XTC, both are using the same chips.

On the DFI LanParty Expert there we no problems booting into Windows at 2-2-2-5 1T, but the system was not 100% stable. We tried different CL2 timing sets and played with Drive Strength and voltage, but nothing helped.

In the end we reached 2.5-2-2-5 1T @ 200 MHz rock stable.


We also tried some overclocking at these settings and also at 2.5-3-3-8 but we couldn't even reach 210 MHz... at least the memory is working.