8KNXP Memory Capacities?
I'm building a computer that will be used for heavy duty 3d work and for
working with massive photoshop files. Want I want to configure is a 1 gig ram disk and 2 gigs ram for the os and applications. I bought the 8KNXP board and three gigs of this memory: http://kingston.com/hyperx/ 1GB Kit (2 modules at 512m each) HyperX DDR 400MHz 2-3-2-6-1 Standard 64M X 64 Non-ECC 400MHz 184-pin Unbuffered DIMM (SDRAM-DDR, 2.6V, CL2, 400mil, TSOP, Gold) Now that the mb has arrived I see the "gotcha". The 875p can only address 8 pages of memory. Since these sticks are double sided I can only use 2 gigs of it on the board :-( The question is this: Since the board is advertised as accepting up to 4 gigs of ram, does any even make a single sided 512mb or 1 gig double sided stick? I really wish Gigabyte had thrown me an asterisk under the memory spec for this mb! |
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Thanks for the info. I called Kingston and they swore that the KVR400 512mb modules are in fact double sided. They also said they don't have a single sided module above 128k. Are you sure that yours are single sided? From the website: KVR400X64C3AK2/1G 1GB Kit 400MHz DDR PC3200 DIMM 3-3-3 Specification Standard 64M X 64 Non-ECC 400MHz 184-pin Unbuffered DIMM (SDRAM-DDR, 2.6V, CL3, 400mil, TSOP, Double-Sided, Gold) On 8/21/03 11:16 PM, Bob Davis wrote : I am running two Kingston KVR400X64C3AK2/1G kits (512mb x 4, two matched sets), which are single-sided modules. Thus, I could populate my mobo with 512's and have 3gb, yet have two pages to spare. Alas, these CAS3 "ValueRam" modules may not satisfy you in the speed department, but they are available. "Jackson" wrote in message nk.net... I'm building a computer that will be used for heavy duty 3d work and for working with massive photoshop files. Want I want to configure is a 1 gig ram disk and 2 gigs ram for the os and applications. I bought the 8KNXP board and three gigs of this memory: http://kingston.com/hyperx/ 1GB Kit (2 modules at 512m each) HyperX DDR 400MHz 2-3-2-6-1 Standard 64M X 64 Non-ECC 400MHz 184-pin Unbuffered DIMM (SDRAM-DDR, 2.6V, CL2, 400mil, TSOP, Gold) Now that the mb has arrived I see the "gotcha". The 875p can only address 8 pages of memory. Since these sticks are double sided I can only use 2 gigs of it on the board :-( The question is this: Since the board is advertised as accepting up to 4 gigs of ram, does any even make a single sided 512mb or 1 gig double sided stick? I really wish Gigabyte had thrown me an asterisk under the memory spec for this mb! |
"Jackson" wrote in message k.net... Thanks for the info. I called Kingston and they swore that the KVR400 512mb modules are in fact double sided. They also said they don't have a single sided module above 128k. Are you sure that yours are single sided? Whoa! No, I'm not sure, but always assumed they were singles. They have chips on both sides, but that doesn't necessarily make them "double-sided," according to some tests I've read (e.g., http://www17.tomshardware.com/mother.../i875p-04.html). On the Anandtech test they show modules with chips on both sides that are single-sided. I honestly don't know how to tell the difference, visually or otherwise. I don't know of any software that'll identify this quality, and I haven't seen it mentioned in specs for memory on the manufacturer's sites. Well, I'm not going higher than 2gb anyway, so it doesn't affect me. In your case, if you want to eventually go higher than 2gb, you'd obviously have to plan ahead. |
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