Pentium 4 motherboards and their MAX RAM - help with a bet!

I need help with a BET, so put on your thinking caps. Today a co-worker and I got in to a discussion. We have another co-worker that has a 3 year old Compaq, and he wants to upgrade his RAM. My friend told him that it would probably only support 1Gb, but I said 'NO, that's not true... motherboards have been supporting more than 1GB for a long long time." Long story short, he said that inexpensive systems, ie a 499 machine from Wal-mart never really came with the ability to have more than 1GB of RAM until recently. I told him that systems have been coming the ability to go beyond 1GB of RAM for about 7 years, and then immediately retracted, and said, 'okay, maybe 5 years'.

Upon some research, I see that the introduction of the Pentium 4 back in August of 2000, also introduced us to northbridge chipsets from intel that were capable of a maximum of 2GB of RAM. So it looks like I'm correct. There's 21 chipsets (give or take) that are for pentium 4 based systems, and they all appear to support 2GB of RAM except the 845MP, which looks like it was only 1GB, but it was also for laptops.

He said, and I don't really dispute, that even though the chipset was capable of supporting 2GB, that a lot, and stressed a LOT, of motherboards still only were designed to support 1GB.

I REALLY want to go out on a limb here and say I think ALMOST all Pentium 4 Motherboards since, oh say, 2002 (6 years) have supported 2GB RAM max (or more), not just 1GB.

BUT this is where I need your help. I told him to show me an example of a motherboard that was pentium 4 based, that has intel chipset on it, that only supported 1GB due to it's design, not the chip capabilities. He can't. Granted those types of motherboards are old, but someone out there, if one exists, knows of one, and can help his case. I'd like to know about it. (As a side bar, we'd like to know about AMD motherboards and their max RAM limits during the same 5, 6, or 7 years... but I can't find that data.)

CAN ANY OF YOU HELP????

Well we could, but we're not going to. Now fock off.

The first i845 motherboards from Intel, running that wondrous stuff PC133 could take 3GB max.

You guys really live on the edge, don't you?

EDIT: Fair enough

Smile

Can we help? Yes. But we don't want to...

If you want guys to blow you, go back down the docks you big ponce.

mother jokes aren't cool and show no class whatsoever

you checked with others with no class then...mother jokes are definitly not accepted here.....

BE GONE

* i hear a wingding approching!

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I like this new guy. He got the hippie all upset!

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(Nutz, I'd recommend reading the stickies if you haven't already, and you would understand the "boneheaded" replies that you have gotten so far)

He's just sniffy because he doesn't have a fcuking clue about motherboards, hence he has to pimp himself out at the docks. With very little success I'd wager.

yeah and add to that he has no class.....this is a classy joint.

Oh, I've read the stickies. Just having a little fun. After I posted in the 'real' forum, I posted the question here just for this purpose. I'm suspecting PIKE re-read them, and look for the following post:
ATTENTION ALL NEWBIES: (SHORT FORM)
"Yes, we are assholes.
No, we won't answer your computer questions.
Yes, we would be happy to insult you.
No, we don't want you here.

If you choose to stay, please bend over, and remember said rules. "

Which, I believe, I'm quoting you!. It's all good. (flame away)

No you didn't. This was the first place you posted it. You posted in Hardware afterwards. The time and date stamp doesn't lie. Now you're just back-pedalling and trying to get out of making a dumb n00b post.

Sweety? You big know-nothing ponce.

sounds like scammy ...but i could be wrong

Sez who?

Geesus, not cool & absolutely no class. (or so I've been told)

You know where the off button is toots... use it.

If you would put on a happy and shut the fcuk up the flaming might die down. You've proved you can shoot from the hip, now stop before actually piss somebody off.

You struggle against grammar apparently. I caught ya' before your edit, which means you can't own up to a mistake. Lame-ass.

He's so lame he added to his original post to cover up and make it look like his edit was for something else. What a douche.

It wasn't meant as a "zinger". Most here when they edit for a typo, will admit it. You clearly are so insecure, and are trying so hard to be above it all, won't.

That's fine. You're weak. We already know. Keep trying though. Literally hundreds before you tried to do what you're doing, and have failed.

You bore me.

*goes outside by pool with whiskey*

I have 4 words for you... "30 minutes until Oprah"