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I think i've been duped... please help guys

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MouraV

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I just purchased two sticks of 512 MB DDR PC3200 ram, with the Infineon name on it. The serial number on the individual chips is HYB25D256800BT-5. Much to my surprise, I found this number under the 256Mb DDR SDRAMs at infineon.com. Here is the link, its the seventh one down:

http://www.infineon.com/cgi/ecrm.dll/ecrm/scripts/prod_ov.jsp?oid=13529&cat_oid=-8005

Have I been duped? Also, the fact that it is 3/3/3 isnt very good now, is it? I got it from a Chinese guy, along with the MSI Neo2 board and a 2.4C processor. I have no doubts about that; its just this memory.

Can someone tell me whats going on, and how I can get to the bottom of this?

Vic
 
As you know, sometimes ram is bundled together. Maybe the package claimed to have 512mb of ram, which meant the two sticks of ram added together and you mistook the package to be 2 sticks of 512mb. Just a guess, but maybe it is? How much did you get it for?
 
I did take it to the store, and the guy showed me it was 2 sides. Thus, 8 chips of 32M on one side, 8 on the other. Does this make sense?

Is this a good stick of RAM? How about this 3-3-3 latency? Can I somehow tweak that?

I paid $129 Canadian for this. That currently amounts to $95, without tax.

Vic
 
256 Megabit SDRAMs are the individual black chips soldered to the module's circuit board. The datasheet you're pointing out isn't for the whole module, it's a datasheet on the individual chips on the module.
 
If you have 16 (8 on each side) megaBIT chips you have 512 total MegaBTYES of RAM.

(16 X 256) divided by 8 (because there are 8 bits in a byte)
 
If your memory module has 16 chips HYB25D256160BT-5
(8 on each side) than you got 512M of memory
But if one side has no chips at all you got 256M module
 
wait.

did you install the memory at all? i mean, why would you be asking this if you havent. using it will give you an absolute answer. sure counting chips is one thing, but actually letting the mobo count all the bytes is another.

HYB25D256800BT-5 refers to a 256 Mb (megabit) chip. and as the others have stated, if you have 8 chips, that means you have 8x256Mb chips, which means there are 256MB (megabytes). if you have 16, you have 512 MB. the HYB25D256800BT-5 chip is used on 128MB, 256MB, and 512MB memory modules.
 
Originally posted by: MouraV


I got it from a Chinese guy


Vic
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is that supposed to have a special meaning? are you going to say you bought it from a russian guy if you did...

but yeah putting that stick into a computer already.
 
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