what socket A motherboard supports 128x4 ram arch?

[gehidore]

what socket A motherboard supports 128x4 ram arch?

ive got a 1GB stick of pc2700 (ddr333) with 128x4 arch it does not work with asus abit or intel boards.

i want a board that can take a 2800 barton and the 1 gb of ram but i cannot find one.

[Floog]

Check out www.newegg.com.
Click the "Computer Hardware" tab.
Then click the "Shop By Category" link.
Scroll down and find the "Motherboards" section.

New Egg gives very detailed specifications listings on most of the products they sell and also provides pictures for most of the items too.

If you see an MSI, Gigabyte, Asus, Soyo, etc, that says it handles up to 3Gigs. max. of RAM, and the picture shows 3 RAM slots, then it's probably safe to assume that the mobo. can handle 1 gig. (1024 meg.) RAM sticks.

However, just to be sure, once you see a mobo. that interests you, click the "Product Link" that is usually at the bottom of the spec. listing and you can go straight to the manufacturers site and look at the company's own spec. list for the product, usually in .pdf format.

Good choice on the Athlon XP 2800 Barton.......real nice stuff. Maybe by this time next year I'll be able to afford an Athlon 64.

Hope this helps.

Floog

[schuster19uk]

Barton AMD Processors

It should work with the ASUS A7N8X-X :

DDR 400
3 x 184-pin DIMM Sockets
Max. 3 GB unbuffered PC3200/PC2700/PC2100/PC1600 non-ECC DDR RAM Memory

[gehidore]

i found some nice ones on newegg that said nothing about not being not supporting "x4" ram architecture and neither does my asus a7v8x and the ram does not work on it not even post or post beeps. of course my proc i was testing with was shorted when i replaced it into my old board. i did go to a local "repair shop" to borrow a gigabyte board that could take 64x4 and 512showed up so i know the ram is good.

but i was ondering if any one has used any "x4" ram on any highmem support boards


Floog
im building a athlon64 with a matched pair of 512 crucial pc3200 80 gb serial ata drive... the works aluminum case cdrom burner dvd mass cooling wireless keyboard mouse all that stuff and (lame windoze xp professional). for a customer this friday he didnt even blinkwhen i told him it would be roughly $1500 he didnt even blink and thats without a monitor so ill tell you when i get the stuff together if they are worth that much, unless he changes his mind.

are their any socket 795 boards that support "x4"

[Floog]

I'm sorry Mr. G, I may be misunderstanding the type of RAM you are referring to. I thought you said your stick of RAM was PC2700, so I automatically assumed it was DDR-SDRAM. But might it be 168 pin SDRAM you have? Most of the references I see to "64x4" RAM involves ECC Registered PC2100 SDRAM.

Yeah, please let me know what you think of the Athlon 64 once you have a chance to work with it. I'd like to know your impressions of it. The server that I run doesn't do too much heavy lifting so I was mainly thinking of purchasing one for a gaming box. But if you don't see any great performance difference then I may grab an Athlon XP 3000 and smile at the $197 price.

Floog


Originally posted by Gehidore
"x4" ram architecture

<<snip>>

Floog
im building a athlon64 . . . so ill tell you when i get the stuff together if they are worth that much, unless he changes his mind.

[blobaugh]

As long as the spec on the board have PC2700 listed, and it says in the manual that it can take 1 gig per slot you should be able to use it. If you have an older board and it doesn't support 1 gig per slot, then you could look into a bois flash upgrade. You can usually get them from you motherboard manufacturer. Be careful though cause you can kill you hardware if you mess up.

[gehidore]

sorry flog did not mean to insult
but,
my 64 bit prospector ;) wants to wait until the newyear(at least after december)
i love when people change their minds dont you.

this is the same ram different company (http://www.ld-technology.com/one_prod.php?pid=0214410)

look at the ram this is the same stuff i got but the company i got it from said it would work

yes yes yes frown on me for not buying high quality.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

I'd stick to those chipsets listed by LD technology:

From the LD site
For VIA P4X266A,KT400, KT600 & PT800,SIS 645, 648, 648FX, 746FX Chipsets and more,,*EXCEPT ASUS ABIT,Intel motherboard.* Please check your motherboard specification for memory type before you purchase it.

Have you looked at any motherboards with those chipsets? That's the only thing I can think of...

[gehidore]

im not so sure i want to buy a board that say its compatible just to find out its not.

is it worth 30- 60 bucks?

[gehidore]

i was also wonering...

when i tested it on a gigabyte board of my own with a plain old athlon not xp at 1GHz it fried my cpu (i think)

do you think i should buy my barton 2800 and then test it in that board again, risking short in that proc or should i just try and find a board that i know will work?

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by Gehidore
i was also wonering...

when i tested it on a gigabyte board of my own with a plain old athlon not xp at 1GHz it fried my cpu (i think)

do you think i should buy my barton 2800 and then test it in that board again, risking short in that proc or should i just try and find a board that i know will work?

Heck, I'd kill two boards (birds! :) ) with one stone. Buy a motherboard with one of those chipsets listed, so you'll be ensured of RAM compatibility, and while you're at it, check the mobo manufacturer's site to see if it would support a Barton 2800.

It's like that old hair metal song: once bitten, twice shy, baby...