Ancient motherboard question

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Hi,
One of my PC's motherboard has I430TX chipset. The manual
says it supports SDRAM whose speed is 60/66 mhz. Will new
SDRAM availble today work and in what quantities (I'd like
to buy one 256mb module, but 2x 128 is also OK)? The board
supports max. 256mb.
Thanks

 

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On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:38:13 +0200, 9am1root
<nobuady@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>One of my PC's motherboard has I430TX chipset. The manual
>says it supports SDRAM whose speed is 60/66 mhz. Will new
>SDRAM availble today work and in what quantities (I'd like
>to buy one 256mb module, but 2x 128 is also OK)? The board
>supports max. 256mb.
>Thanks

Today's PC133 is too high a density. It either won't work
or will see only a fraction of the actual capacity. If you
have some old PC133 lying about you could try it, keeing
this in mind and accepting the capacity loss if it works...
of course testing with http://www.memtest86.com too.

IIRC, the PC100 or "PC66" modules you could use will have
128MB per module max, as 16 chips.

HOWEVER, the chipset only (usually) limits cachable memory
to a 64MB limit. The TX chipset based boards are not good
candidates for anything needing a lot of memory (a lot being
more than 64MB). Memory is still faster than a hard drive
if it'll eliminate or at least drastically reduce swapfile
usage, but for single uses not requiring a lot of memory,
the performance may be lower than if only 64MB were
installed.

 

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9am1root wrote:
>
> Hi,
> One of my PC's motherboard has I430TX chipset. The manual
> says it supports SDRAM whose speed is 60/66 mhz. Will new
> SDRAM availble today work and in what quantities (I'd like
> to buy one 256mb module, but 2x 128 is also OK)? The board
> supports max. 256mb.
> Thanks


Hi,

I just went through a similar thing with an older board (Epox P55TV2)
that took either 4 SIMMs or (PC66) 2 DIMMs, and found out the hard way
that there are 'low-density' and 'high-density' DIMMs . If you really
want to be safe, you should probably try to figure out the exact model
of your motherboard then go to someplace like Crucial,
http://www.crucial.com, and buy those. It'll cost you a bit more, but
it'll be a lot less hassle.

In my case, after a couple of tries with buying cheap DIMMs that didn't
work, I ended up with a set of 4 EDO SIMMs for a whopping total of 128MB
, and LOTS of time lost...

Jim