Mike Andrawes Motherboard Roundup Question

[Garet Jax]

Hello all,

In Mike's motherboard round-up dated January 18th, 2002, he mentions a number of times that having support for 4 DIMMs on the MB is important. In fact, he gives the Editor's Gold award partly because the Abit KR7A-RAID has 4 DIMM support.

However, beyond saying that 512 MB DIMMS are not widely available, he never gives a reason why support for 4 DIMMs is so important.

Is it simply because you can fit more memory into the MB or is there another reason?

 

[gaidin123]

I believe that you have the reason there...Having 4 slots just lets you add more RAM to the system providing they're registered DIMMs. Also, I think he probably gave the motherboards that have 4 DIMM slots and were stable higher marks since the engineering involved in getting 4 DIMM slots on a Via board is a lot more involved than adding the usual 3 slots.

So, I guess it's kind of assumed that a 4 slot board will be overall of a higher quality than standard 3 slot boards. In practice I don't know if that turned out to be the case though the KR7A-RAID is a good board.

Gaidin

 

[Garet Jax]

Thanks for the response.

The Abit board looks really good except for no on-board sound or LAN.

 

[zzzz]

<< The Abit board looks really good except for no on-board sound or LAN >>


If you want onboard stuff, Abit has a new mobo out which has alsmost everything onboard. It is AT7 with the via KT333 chipset

 

[THUGSROOK]

i guess they cared about 4 dimm slots alot

i personally could care less - 2 dimms is plenty.