MS-6341 MBoard HELP PLEASE!

[Guest]

the MS-6341 board in the review has 4 DDR DIMM's (http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q1/010104/)
But I can't find that board anywhere, I only find one with 2 DDR DIMM's
Someone please tell me where i can get this.

Thanks

 

[jlanka]

That is very bizarre. The picture on Toms page (URL above) clearly has 4 DIMM slots. Yet the picture on the MSI home page has 2, with what looks like room for 2 additional DIMM slots that are just blank. The manual graphic just shows the two. But the most confusing part is this statement:

Supports 4 memory banks using two 184-pin DDR-DIMM.

Are they talking about the fact that they are Double Inline Memory Modules, so each of them has 2 "banks"? Thats what I would assume. But whats with the 2 blanks on the MSI home page?

What gives?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[jlanka]

This one was bugging me so I did a little more research. Here is what looks to be an explanation: <A HREF="http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/msi_k7master/index3.shtml" target="_new">Tweaktown Review</A> scroll down the page to where they have the photo of the 2 DIMM version. Apparently the -S version comes with 4 DIMMS (along with SCSI). Actually, if you read the text of Toms review he mentions that the board they were given was an S version. Problem solved. Just buy an MS-6341-S


<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[Guest]

thanks

 

[Guest]

oh and one more thing
you wouldnt by any chance know where to get one? lol
even on msi.com.tw they dont have it listed

 

[jlanka]

Well now I found one, but lo and behold it's only got 2 DIMM slots. Go figure.

<A HREF="http://www.sunsetmarketinginc.com/items.asp?CartId=7084702RVHGE71&ic=MSTMS6341030R&tpc=" target="_new">MS-6341-S</A>

Riddle me that batman!

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[Guest]

lol
well thanks for all your help

 

[Yahiko81]

I can't remember where but I read that tom uses pre production boards. So that is why toms had 4 and the production boards only have 2.

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[Guest]

yeah i called up MSI and they said AMD does not recomend it with 4 DIMM slots

thanks

 

[Crashman]

Dang people in here have a short memory. Several months ago it was annouced that the AMD 761 northbridge could handle only 2 banks of unregistered or 4 banks of registers DDR SDRAM. So to avoid problems with people running 4 unregistered modules, MSI dropped two of the sockets.

Video killed my Radio Card!

 

[jlanka]

MSI dropped two of the sockets.

Ahhhh... Bachhhh... (Radar O'Reilly)

Thats why it has the 2 empty spaces. Leave it to Crash to bring some sanity to a melee ;-)

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>