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~misfit~ wrote:
GinTonix wrote: And the official max memory amount for ZX is 256MB instead of 768 for BX. However, e.g. Abit has manufactured a ZX board (ZM6 it was?) where you can have more. The ZM6 (if it was called that) has three slots but there were some rules what kind of sticks you could use in which slots. Can't remember the fitting rules any more, though. The third slot could only have a single-sided module in it. At least according to the bit I found out about ZX after realising my faux pas. In fact the chipset could address four sides with a max of 64MB per side. The board you mentioned (which just happens to come up first if I put 'Intel XZ' into Google) had three slots so that you could utilise more than just 2 x 128 to get to 256. You could use 1 x 128 and 2 x 64 if the 64s were single-sided or 3 x 64 if that's what you had. -- ~misfit~ |
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~misfit~ wrote:
~misfit~ wrote: GinTonix wrote: And the official max memory amount for ZX is 256MB instead of 768 for BX. However, e.g. Abit has manufactured a ZX board (ZM6 it was?) where you can have more. The ZM6 (if it was called that) has three slots but there were some rules what kind of sticks you could use in which slots. Can't remember the fitting rules any more, though. The third slot could only have a single-sided module in it. At least according to the bit I found out about ZX after realising my faux pas. In fact the chipset could address four sides with a max of 64MB per side. The board you mentioned (which just happens to come up first if I put 'Intel XZ' into Google) had three slots so that you could utilise more than just 2 x 128 to get to 256. You could use 1 x 128 and 2 x 64 if the 64s were single-sided or 3 x 64 if that's what you had. -- ~misfit~ Yes. Addressing is really by, using the old terminology, "bank" (new terminology being "rank") so "memory slots" is not entirely accurate. It's usually the case that "memory slots" allow 'double sided' sticks, which means two ranks, one on each 'side' (although the physical location is irrelevant) in the one 'slot'. The ZX can handle 4 ranks. That would be two 'normal' slots of double sided RAM but it's allowable to distribute the 4 ranks among more than 2 slots as long as everything adds to 4 ranks. That adds some flexibility while adding confusion (if one assumes each slot can take double sided sticks). I'm not entirely sure about the 64 Meg per rank. That was the 'official' number when the BX and ZX chipsets were made because that was the state of the art in memory modules at the time but the BX can actually take 128 Meg (of 'standard' density) per rank for the afore mentioned 768meg total in three slots. It would seem likely that the same case applies to the ZX but I haven't checked to know for sure. |
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