Re: Memory question

treenoakio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks for the explanation John, you've moved me on considerably.
Now to check how easy it is to find the number of chips on each
prospective stick.
From the pictures perhaps, those that don't have the chips covered
anyway.

If you have a really close shot of the actual stick, you can sometimes read the manufacturer codes off the chips. Other than that there's no way of telling, and companies will often sell sticks with different chip counts under the same code and with the same picture.

A64s will work to a degree with almost any meaningful memory stick, including those with 1Gbit chips and even the x4 "high density" junk that shows up on eBay. If you're using two sticks per channel, you ideally use eight-chip sticks to keep the memory bus at 400MHz/1T.


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John Jordan
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