Asus P4T533

[Zowwie]

I was just at the Kingston Technologies web site (looking for Cas 2 RIMM) and came across a web page that said the Asus P4T533 motherboard was only capable of 1 Gig of RIMM 4200.
<A HREF="http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator/modelsinfo.asp?SysID=+11975+&distributor=0&submit=Find" target="_new">http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator/modelsinfo.asp?SysID=+11975+&distributor=0&submit=Find</A>

This directly conflicts with the Asus web site as they say their motherboard is capable of 2 Gigs of RIMM 4200. <A HREF="http://usa.asus.com/mb/socket478/p4t533/overview.htm#" target="_new">http://usa.asus.com/mb/socket478/p4t533/overview.htm#</A>

The Asus motherboard only has 2 RIMM slots on it which leads me to believe that Kingston is actually right and that Asus doesn't even know their own product. The only other thing I can think of would be that Asus believes that companies will start to making 1 Gig RIMM modules. I have never heard of a 1 Gig RAM module before, only 512MB.

What am I missing? Any advice would be appreciated,

Zowwie

 

[Crashman]

LOL, Kingston's page also says it has 4 sockets (2 pairs) and that they only offer it in 256MB and smaller modules. It's a screwup on Kingston's part, basically, they used the information for the P4T533-C (4 sockets for PC800/1066) instead of the P4T533, then relabled it for the P4T533, then multiplied 2 sockets times the largest module they had to offer. In other words, Asus is saying the board will support 2 1024MB RIMMS, and Kingston is saying the largest they have to offer is 512MB RIMMS. You have to read between the lines here. Kingston's information is faulty.

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[Zowwie]

I just got off the phone with the people at Asus. They explained to me that the P4T533 is actually capable of 2 Gigs of RIMM 4200 due to the fact that companies will soon be making 1 Gig RIMM modules (I ASSUME that RIMM 3200 {800MHz} will come first, then RIMM 4200 {1066MHz}). He gave me a warning though, beware of manufacturers selling 16bit RIMM 3200/4200 modules (They won't work in the P4T533), you need to have the 32bit architecture. I didn't even think it possible to make a 16bit RIMM3200/4200 module. Now it seems more of a matter of when Samsung or Elpida (Only 2 companies who's RIMM is varified to work with the P4T533) will release these new memory modules.

 

[Crashman]

Actually, the 16-bit stuff is called PC800 and PC1066. Anyone selling PC800 as RIMM 3200 or PC1066 as RIMM 4200 is either lying or too stupid to know what they are selling.

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