Is it possible to run 4 sticks of non registered DDR in a mobo with 4 DIMM slots?

[aka1nas]

I have a bunch of 256MB DDR sticks I picked up when they were cheap last year, and am only using half of them. I am considering ditching my Gigabyte board(a GA7DX I won from the AMD giveaway) and getting something a little burlier that could take all 4 of my sticks. Problem is, they are just normal crucial PC2100, cl 2.5. Most of the 4 slot boards I have seen say they require registered DDR to use more than 2 slots at a time. Is this really true?

 

[Bovinicus]

If that's what it says then it is probably true. You can be my guest and try, but I wouldn't gamble that much money.

 

[Epsil0n00]

I have an Abit KR7A-RAID that has 4 slots. The specs for that board say that the maximum amount of RAM it can handle is 4GB... however, it must be registered to run that much... however, it says that it will run up to 3GB of unregistered. I am not sure if that means only 3 of the slots can be used (1GB each), or if you can put up to 3GB distributed over 4 slots. I currently have 2 x 512MB sticks of PC2100 running in it. I would bet that you could run 4 x 256MB on that board and have it be just fine. Check it out... that board is freakin awesome! Good luck!

Epsil0n