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| Thread ID: 44748 | 2004-04-29 03:26:00 | will PC133 Ram work? | robsonde (120) | Press F1 |
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| 232889 | 2004-05-03 11:20:00 | > >he told me that it wont work in the system because > the new ram is single sided and the system must need > double sided ram, i told him that this sounded like > crap. > > Well,its correct,some boards won't run on single > sided ram,You can though get ram of the same basic > specs but in a double sided configuration that should > work.Single sided sticks are roughly half the price > of double sided. Both statements are not quite correct in the fact that it does not matter whether the ram modules are double side or single sided the critical factor is how many chips. A high density 128mb ram module with only 4 chips would probably not work in your PC ( or only register half 64mb) where as a 128mb module with 8 chips would work ok. I think it is a chipset limitation rather than a bios one. So get a ram module with the most chips on it per mb you can find and hopefully that will work ok. Of course some m/b can be a bit fussy on what sort of ram they like. :-) |
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| 232890 | 2004-05-03 11:38:00 | now here is a man who knows his stuff!! the shop ram that dident work was 4 chip and the ram that I swaped for is 8 chip. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 232891 | 2004-05-03 11:42:00 | still not quite right ;-) high density ram sticks do have problems with some pc's. however it quite comman to get problems with single sided. sdram basicly have 2 ram banks. the mobo has a limit of how much ram per bank it can address. a pc may max out at 128 meg per bank so with a double sided ram stick it will max out at 256 per stick. obviously a 256 meg stick single sided is to big and won't run or will show up as a 128. so check what the motherboard requires. some require registered ram to be able to get to the max limits and some will not run with high density modules. |
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