Cold: 512mb pc133 sdram $55 after MIR @ BestBuy

[croak]

ram & rebate: K-Byte 512MB PC133 SDRAM

 

[GregANDTCH]

Thanks for the post.
May not overclock, but not everyone overclocks anyway.

 

[BAMAVOO]

Will this work with the 845 mobo?

 

[oshelef]

Anyone know if this is high density or not?


Thanks,


Orie

 

[marill999]

is this good ram?

 

[croak]

looks like mine is going back. only shows up as 128mb in my abit bh6 bx-based board. suck.

 

[APlusTech]

It has 8 chips on each side with no identifiable manufacturer's logo. Not a good sign.
All it says on the chips is 64Mx4 SDRAM-8-T. It's 8 ns! (7.5 for typical PC133 CL3).
Can't do 133 CL3 on my ASUS TUSI-M (SiS630ET), although it's ok at 100 MHz.
Only regconized as 256 MB on my ASUS AV7I-VM (VIA KM133) which I didn't bother to check if it works there.
***Update: That was when I set the memory to run at 133. When I set it at 100 with SPD default (3-2-2), my w2k runs stable.

 

[sirjay]

If it only shows up as 128m, and says 64x4 or ??x4 it's highdensity... bah, crap.. warm deal just went to polar

 

[DoctorSmurfie]

Eh my friend bought Ram like that once, 512mb showed up as 64mb or 128mb no matter what he did.

Called people that made it but no one answered phone, ever.

Sometimes a deals not a deal even if the $$ is right.....

-Mike

 

[marill999]

<< Sometimes a deals not a deal even if the $$ is right..... >>

 

[olouie]

damn i really wanted ram... although i do not need it haha

 

[Wag]

Actually that's a pretty decent price for high-density ram. About what it's going for online after the shipping prices.

Has anyone tested this on a Via based motherboard like the KT7A? I hear high-density ram works well on those boards, and I might be willing to give it a shot.

 

[Ziptar]

Maybe they should call it K-Bites!

Wow... Pretty sad when $69.99 buys you a crappy, no name brand, HD, (not)PC133 512MB stick....


This makes it offical... the days of cheap ram are over


BTW: Watch out, either OD or OM are running a special of some sort on K-Byte RAM this week...

 

[ReefBarracuda]

<< looks like mine is going back. only shows up as 128mb in my abit bh6 bx-based board. suck >>



LOL, Of course it didn't work for you croak, your board only supports a maximum of 256MB for each DIMM, make sure you dont make the same mistake again.

But as to why it didn't work in the other cases? I have no freaking idea.

 

[croak]

ReefBarracuda: yeah, i realized that a bit later, but with other having problems, deal seemed cold.

 

[clarkmo]

Well, I don't have this ram but I did buy a generic high density 64 x 4 512 mb pc133 dimm for my KT7 (no a) and it is 8 ns as well. I think there was a time in the memory industry that 8 ns was frequently classified as pc133 pretty much across the board. Anyway, this works fine with 4 way interleaving, 4k page mode, normal settings but no o'c. YMMV

 

[poppagene]

mine shows up as 512 with a VIA PL133 Chipset

 

[Wag]

I just bought one of these. It clearly states 64x64-PC133 on the package, but the chips say 64x4M.

Well, I called the company to check on this., He gave me some explanation stating the whole strip is called "64x64" while the chips seperately are 64x4.

I'm a bit confused. I thought there was a difference between High-Density memory and normal 512mb PC133. So are all 512mb strips using 64x4 memory or is this ia case of mislabling?

 

[BigDoggie]

Some motherboards are unable to accept 512meg SDRAM, my aging Asus among them. They are either recognized as 128M, or 256M, or maybe not at all.