re: 512 sdram
Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 6:39 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6528 messages posted)
Yup.. What Steve said. Intel chipsets max on standard low density SDRAM was 256
meg modules (double sided/double density as it was called) per slot up to one gig
of SDRAM with some tweaking by the hardware manufacturer. I have 4 old Asus P2B-DS
boards used in low end servers at the time, with 4 slots that will take 256 low (or
double) density only, up to 1 gig of RAM. (max 128 meg per side of the module)
I have an old Asus CUV4X-DS with a VIA chipset that will take the high density (or
Quad density some would call it) 512 SDRAM modules X 3. As far as I know, VIA (maybe
SIS but I haven't seen any over the years) was the only manufacturer that made a
chipset that did this before the switch to DDR. I run Win 9X on this board with
one 512 meg module just fine.
Intel made chipsets that would take RDRAM (before DDR hit the market) and DDR in
the 512 meg in later, but never made a chipset that would support the HD SDRAM (greater
than 256 meg) straight off the drawing board (natively). On top of that was the
fact that the board manufacturer could put any limits on size and config of memory
below what the chipset could handle.
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- re: 512 sdram (DanTheMan: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 11:40 pm)
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