P5AD2-E Suggestions on memory

[agit8er]

I am currently building another computer. I have a Asus P5AD2-E board. The
literature shows DDR2 533 memory. Can I assume since this is an older
board, any non-ECC DDR2 memory will work?
I will also be getting a new Intel CPU. I notice some show EM64T as a
feature that the board must support. Intel website explains what it is but
I can't find any info as to whether the ASUS P5AD2-E supports it.

Thanx
Jeff

 

[Paul]

I am currently building another computer. I have a Asus P5AD2-E board. The
literature shows DDR2 533 memory. Can I assume since this is an older
board, any non-ECC DDR2 memory will work?
I will also be getting a new Intel CPU. I notice some show EM64T as a
feature that the board must support. Intel website explains what it is but
I can't find any info as to whether the ASUS P5AD2-E supports it.

Thanx
Jeff

You can search by CPU here. If you select "CPU", "P4", then find
the P4-660...

http://support.asus.com.tw/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

it returns these four boards, among others:

P5AD2 Deluxe ALL 1007
P5AD2 Premium ALL 1010
P5AD2-E Deluxe ALL 0204
P5AD2-E Premium ALL 1004

If you go to developer.intel.com and download a datasheet for the
925x/925xe Northbridge, it says both of them support EM64T.
There are no errata with the word EM64T in them, implying it
works, as long as the BIOS is recent enough.

http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/301464.htm

Page 147 of the e1968_p5ad2-e_deluxe.pdf manual also documents
EM64T, and it may not be mentioned in all the manuals if the boards
did not ship with that feature working at the time. Look for a
manual update from the download page, and see if an appendix has
been added to the manual.

There is a link to a memory QVL off the product page for the board.

http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/qvl/P5AD2-E_DDR2_QVL.pdf

Paul

 

[wally]

I don't know if this will help but I'm running 1gb(2x512) corsair ddr2
667 with the fsb set at 888 and have had no problems on my
p5ad2e-premium