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Any single-bank 512MB sticks out there??

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erorr404

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i want to upgrade my system to 1 GB of RAM, but my motherboard only supports a maximum of 3 memory banks. my current stick of Kingston ValueRAM PC2700 has 2 memory banks, so the system wont support another stick with 2 banks, because there will be 4 banks in total.
ive been searching the web and can never find any info on how many banks a particular stick has. i would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me find a pretty cheap, single-bank 512 MB stick with decent timings. a single-bank 1 GB wouldn't hurt either, as long as its not too expensive.
thanks in advance.
 
yes, pc3200 is fully backward compatible with pc2700 and pc2100 and pc2700 is backward compat with pc2100 etc. it just runs at the slower speed
 
yeah, this message is reguarding the junior member that give the link http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146541 to the dimm chip. Im tryin to confirm if he/she was giving the link to the person to help them by suggesting this link based on the criteria the person that started the forum was lookin for. What I wanna know is, is the product from newegg.com single sided dimm or double sided? just reply to my email (buffdaddylxix@email.com) with help PLEASE.
 
Thanks alot guy, I dont know how you found such a good deal on one single sided. I had so much trouble with ones which had out standing prices....im likw whoa, wut the f@#k. for as much as some places was asking around I could have came out better gettin a gig for wut they asked. and for some reason, alot of european businesses sell 512mb single-sided. I could explain that one. Thats all i just bout got for results in search engines for single side 512....was european nonsense.thats just more trouble than its worth. ordering all the way from europe. I mean damn, u would think america would be just as on top the computer component industry as much as europe. Im tellin you guy, its been just real pain. Thx for the link.
 
yeah, so the BIOS definition of 'bank' is different than the marketing definition of 'bank'. I'm going to assume your sig is up to date and you're talking about the MSI 648-MAX motherboard. Though it says here ( http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=355 ) that it supports 3 (marketing) banks, that really means 3 dimms (which could have a total of 6 'BIOS' banks).

you honestly don't believe that a modern motherboard with 3 dimm slots would only support 3 single-sided dimm's do you ?

summary: OF COURSE your motherboard supports 3 double-sided dimms.

ebaycj

 
unfortunately, i did believe it only supports 3 banks, and ended up wasting $40 🙁. oh well now i have 1.5GB instead of 1GB 😀.
 
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