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well the rampage three extreme is running now but I wish I had sort of a more conclusive I wish I had something more conclusive as to what exactly was causing the problem because there okay there's a couple things I ran into first of all I couldn't get it to post until I removed the 90 DX that was in there I put in this kingston ram although i haven't tried any other ram yet and i removed my gtx 260 extra 8800 GT s 640 video card which now I've tried on another system and it seems to be dead which is very confusing because it was working up until exactly when I tried to use it with this system so that's part of why I ran into trouble it saw really bad when your tester parts your your known good components died so anyway I tried with this GTX 275 that's sitting here and it worked and then I tried with with an evaluation Radeon 5000 series card and it's working with that as well so we're finally posted into the BIOS but since the whole point of my original video with the rampage 3 extreme was going to be seeing how it reacts with 24 gigs of ram I thought before I go any further what I'll do is I'll pull out this Kingston module and then I will see what happens now that we've actually got the board posting because we've got a working video card in it I'm going to go ahead and install my six RAM dims ok we got one this is going to take a little while so please bear with me just got the camera sort of hanging from my neck here I've had some complaints that it causes dizziness and nausea so I guess I can I'll have to disclaim my show from now on that watching it may cause you know vomiting and all those other nasty pharmaceutical side effects it's ok you guys can handle it alright there we go so I got my 6 dims in there it looks all shiny and gold ok the colour scheme doesn't really match but that's ok if you're buying this motherboard you should probably be buying like some Reapers or or platinum series Ram anyway rather than the basic gold so here the little post LEDs this is what actually helped me figure out it was the VGA card so you can see it goes CPU RAM VGA boot device boom we are booted up and let's see what it defects the text by default for the RAM settings here so target DRAM frequency 1333 so it got there by default let me see okay extreme Tweaker is the first option in this board go figure they assume someone buying a rampage three extreme board is going to want to tweak it a little bit Wow okay so Otto is 1333 we can set it up to 1600 although I have no idea what would happen if we did that it looks like the default voltage for the RAM is going to be 1.5 volts and you know what since we're you know here anyway why don't we boot up the system and see if it's actually even remotely stable with 1.5 volts because this ocz Ram is actually rated for 1.6 5 volts at ddr3 1333 CL 9 9 9 21 min is maybe we could even overclock these modules a little bit and and and still run them within their default voltage so that would be kind of cool so I'm just going to wait for the system to boot up here let me see if there's anything else interesting on my desk Oh check this out it's some magny-cours but it's not a real one it's actually just just a blank just to demonstrate how large the CPU is let me see if I have anything else around here to show for for context I guess I don't really but yeah it's really big now I'll kind of put it there so now you can see how big it is compared to a memory module of every booted up there we go now I can stop killing time so here we go why don't we grab prime95 you always want to use blend when you're testing RAM because otherwise it doesn't really test the RAM and let's have a look at our task manager here where it will show our physical memory total of well that doesn't seem right let's fire up CPU Zed's here and see what's going on now hold on available free it's only showing 16 gigs of RAM is that a Windows limitation ok first let's check here so in CPU said it shows to 24 gigabytes of memory and it shows that it is running at the correct timings except this should probably be 20 but that has almost zero impact on performance anyway the TRS so I wouldn't worry too much about that and then ok our CPU frequency is correct everything looks hunky-dory except for the fact that the RAM here is only detecting a 16 gig so you know what it may actually be a BIOS setting this is not something I've done before running 20 gigs of ram so here our 24 gigs of ram rather so here let's see Windows 7 memory limits search is always your friend when you're troubleshooting something Windows 7 memory limits here we go so let's find out what Windows 7 Ultimate is limited to Windows Vista Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 7 Ultimate ok should in theory be limited to a hundred and ninety-two gigs of RAM but is it possible that there's something else at play here you know I had really hoped that this video would be more conclusive than all of this but when we go back into the BIOS and see if there's any kind of setting that might obviously allow us to see all 24 gigs of RAM because you can see it is detected in CPU said it's just a matter of the OS not being able to utilize it you see that all the time with your running like a 32-bit operating system you'll see four gigs with in-memory detection programs but you won't actually see four gigs of addressable memory space through Windows so okay here we go okay that's just frequency memory configuration protect allows you to lock or unlock the memory configuration well why don't we okay we just kind of leave that the way it is in here I don't see anything that looks like it pertains to hmm some kind of memory limit okay voltages are all good let's see if there's anything in advance under maybe chipset or CPU which is where you more often find extra memory settings these days because the memory controllers are on the CPUs on both Intel and AMD platforms hmm all right well it looks like I am foiled yet again so once again please feel free to leave a comment and let me know if you can think of a way for me to get access to all 24 gigs of memory and I just wanted to address a couple of the ideas that other people had when I was trying to troubleshoot posting this board no I did not turn off the PCI Express slot although that would have been hilarious and sounds like exactly the kind of thing I would do the problem did not end up being that I had to have a molex plug here in here and I even tried with a higher power graphics card that 275 co-op and that did not fix the problem the problem was not clearing the seamos and it was not flashing the BIOS I did not need to flash the BIOS to get the six core working again in here and let me see what some of the other some of the other good ideas were and yeah no you know what I actually had a lot of good comments a lot of good ideas but none of them ended up being it it ended up being a dead video card which is strange because I did already test with the GTX 260 and yeah I didn't didn't have any luck on that side either so you know it might be a matter of going home and testing my gtx 260 now as well to see if maybe that's pride too that would be just terrible luck so thank you for checking out my video on installing 24 gigs of ram in the a soos rampage 3 extreme