DOES INTEL 810 SUPPORT CL3 RAM

[OptimusRhyme]

I know the Intel 810 supports CL2 RAM, but does it support CL3? To be completely honest, I don't know the difference.

TIA.

 

[mechBgon]

It will, and as long as you're considering getting RAM, remember that i810 will not work with some of the PC133 modules out there which use high-density memory chips on them. PC100 is a safe bet. The CL stands for CAS Latency (CAS stands for Column Address Strobe). Basically, it's got to do with how quickly the memory can begin to reply to a data request, and the difference isn't going to be noticable between 2 or 3 for your purposes.

 

[brigden]

Is double-sided RAM considered high-density, and single-sided considered low-density? Or, can one buy single-sided RAM with high-density chips? How does one know a stick of RAM is high-density?

Cheers.

 

[bozo1]

If there are chips only on one side, it is high-density and will not work in that board. Make sure what you get has chips on both sides.

 

[brigden]

Well, if single-sided RAM is high-density, and the i810 is incapable of running high-density RAM, how does one explain the two sticks of single-sided 128MB PC100 RAM sitting in my mobo?

My bro gave me a stick of double-sided 256MB PC133 and the system detected it as 128MB.

I am confused.

 

[bozo1]

It's only the 256M modules that they started using 'high-density' chips.

Basically they took the chips that they normally use to populate both sides of 512M modules and put them only on one side making a 256M module. Intel chipsets do not recognize these type of chips as they didn't exist when the chipsets were designed. (Same reason you can't use 512M modules in these systems.) Therefore, either the system doesn't detect the module at all, doesn't boot or it only sees it as 128M.

 

[brigden]

OK, great, that clears that up for me. So, I need double-sided chips. Why then won't the double-sided 256MB PC133 my bro gave me work? My system detected it as just 128. Is it because it was 133?

 

[bozo1]

What other modules do you have in there and are they double-sided as well? Your motherboard supports only so many banks and with double sided modules, those are 2 banks. If your other modules are double-sided as well, you may be hitting that limit.

[Edit] Well, nevermind. The 810 chipset supports 4 banks of memory so 2 double-sided modules should work. Don't know what the deal is with yours.

Unless - how many chips are on each side of the module? If there are only a few, it may still be high-density but instead of putting all of the chips on one side like they normally do, they just split them up between both sides.