Looking for motherboard with 3x DDR slots...

[WildeBeast]

So just find memory labeled "registered" and everythign will be good? I just don't want to waste $60!

 

[WildeBeast]

Ok, but I see both registered ECC and registered NonECC.

 

[Bingo13]

All registered memory is ECC, you will lose about 2~3 percent in the memory benchmarks and your overclocking capability is reduced.

 

[Gandu]

Don't buy Registered and ECC at the same time, it will slow down your performance. Isn't Registered RAM slow enough? You want to get even slower ram.

 

[Gandu]

This is funny, you pay extra to get slower kind memory I hate the way world works.

 

[Gandu]

Can we expect a future fix for that AMD-760 chipset limitation?

 

[WildeBeast]

Seeing as how I will never need more than 512MB of DDR, I guess that I could just get normal ram, but it is a shame to lose 1-2 slots.

 

[bevo]

From the amd761 chipset spec sheet:

<< Figure 4 on page 12 shows the AMD-761 system connection to unbuffered DIMMS. Unbuffered DIMM Support requires only four chip selects to support a maximum of two DIMMs. Only two unbuffered DIMMs are supported due to the heavy loading of the DDR signals by unbuffered DIMMs. The AMD-761 system controller provides six differerential clock pairs, three for each unbuffered DIMM. >>

And, yes it is somewhat of a bum deal as I am sitting here holding 1GB of non-pariety pc2100 that I bought when Crucial first put it on sale. Now, I might have to sell it at a discount to run full guns on the kg7 when it arrives...but what has been straightforward about any ddr mb that has arrived since the 1st of this year? Besides being the beta testers, we are the bastard stepchildren of the mb manufacturers...

 

[WildeBeast]

I will buy it!