Re: Via Apollo P4x266 motherboard and 1G PC2100 DDR 266 memory module

Verry constructive reply !
I can expect the others to be polite ! And to support their posts with
some arguments !

The VIA P4XB series mainboards provide 3 sockets for 184-pin, 2.5V DDR
DIMM with 6 memory banks. To operate properly, at least one DIMM module
must be installed.
Memory Installation You can install PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM modules on
the DDR DIMM
slots (DDR 1~3).
DDR266 (Double Data Rate) SDRAM is similar to conventional SDRAM, but
doubles the rate of transfer by transfering data twice per cycle. This
is achieved by transfering
data on both the rising and falling edges of the clock. Conventional
SDRAM only uses the
rising edge of the clock to transferdata .
Therefore, conventional SDRAM is called SDR (Single Data Rate) SDRAM.
DDR SDRAM
uses 2.5 volts as opposed to 3.3 volts used in SDR SDRAM, and requires
184-pin DIMM modules rather than 168-pin DIMM modules used by SDR
SDRAM. DDR266 SDRAM is also known as SDRAM-II, DDR DRAM and DSDRAM
(Double-Speed DRAM). Two types of DDR are available currently: PC1600 &
PC2100. PC1600 DDR SDRAM running at 100MHz will produce
about 1.6GB/s memory bandwidth. PC2100 running at 133MHz will produce
2.1GB/s memory bandwidth. High memory bandwidth makes DDR an ideal
solution for high performance PC, workstations and servers.


This is all the manual says.
I e-mailed the guy, I provided him the model number and the link to the
manual.
He replied saying that "it should work"

So can you tell me what exactly in the above words should have told me
not to buy the module as per your suggestion ?

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