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Compatibility of nForce2 (Ultra) 400 and DDR modules
Since the nForce2 (Ultra) 400 memory controller is known to be a bit picky
about the modules it will properly deal with, are there any first hand experiences available here, about how well it can do with 512MB DDR400(+) modules, which are built with either: - 8× 512Mb-chips 64M (8k×2k×4bnk) × 8bit, single sided/banked or - 8× 512Mb-chips 32M (8k×1k×4bnk) ×16bit, double sided/banked or - 16× 256Mb-chips 64M (8k×2k×4bnk) × 4bit, single sided/banked or - 16× 256Mb-chips 32M (8k×1k×4bnk) × 8bit, double sided/banked What I understand so far, the first 2 variants are still very rare (those chips by now are usually only used for 1 and 2GB modules), while the last variant seems to be the most commonly offered one for the higher quality 6-layer no-names and brands, but apparently for cheap, 4-layer modules the last but one version seems to be quite common. Is this observation correct so far? So how well then is it dealing in real life with 4-layer and 6-layer CL2, CL2.5 and CL3 no-name modules, made with any those different chip combinations and are there any significant differences in this respect between the single and dual channel modes/versions and additionally also with a mix of same sized but differently organised modules, according to the above listing (which shouldn't, since there are two independent memory controllers, one for each channel) for that controller? Wolfi |
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