Does 128MB DDR SDRAM with four horizontal chips exist?

[OrionAntares]

I know if this is even made and if so, where to find some 128MB DDR SDRAM with the 4 chips laid out horizantally [- - - -] rather than vertically [ l l l l ]. Here is a picture similar to what I mean, except the pic is of SDR SDRAM. http://www.geocities.com/ewing_pilot/SDRAM.JPG

 

[Sunner]

Yeah, I've seen a bunch of those, nothing special about them aside from the looks in my experience.

Oh and the link format in FuseTalk is [ L=Link name]http://your.url.goes/here[/L ], minus the spaces.

 

[CTho9305]

just wondering - what does the chip orientation change?

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: CTho9305
just wondering - what does the chip orientation change?

How it looks & likely the length of the traces ont he PCB between the chips and the contacts (which is essentially irrelevant).

Thorin

 

[OrionAntares]

It makes the module about 1 cm shorter, which is what I need.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: OrionAntares
It makes the module about 1 cm shorter, which is what I need.

oh, less tall? Cool 🙂

 

[CZroe]

Buy a motherboard with tilted DIMM slots if your trying to build a 1u server. They DO exist 🙂

 

[OrionAntares]

It's an HTPC, and i already have the mobo and everything, i just need the ram. I thought crucial had it, but it turned out they didn't.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: OrionAntares
It's an HTPC, and i already have the mobo and everything, i just need the ram. I thought crucial had it, but it turned out they didn't.

I did a quick Google search for "low profile ddr sdram dimm" and came up with quite a few results, from Corsair and Samsung among others.
I didn't check out any of the links, but you should be able to find something me thinks, Google is your friend 🙂

 

[Lord Evermore]

The module in that picture looks just as tall as a normal module (yes I know it's SDR so maybe DDR is made shorter, but probably not always; it'd mean a different production run to make the PCB itself for the shorter ones, not cost effective). Just a bunch of wasted space there.