Rambus Ram Help

[Kpshotcalla]

I have a Abit TH7II-RAID motherboard w/ a p4 1.8ghz (socket 478). I needed some advice on which ram to buy. I read the manual and everything but i was still unsure about which ram to get. I'm not sure if I'm suppose to get the ecc or the non-ecc rdram. I would prefer to get the ecc but i wanted to make sure before i bought the ram. Also I'm looking to get 512mb total (2 * 256mb). This is basically the only thing the manual said: "This motherboard provides four rambus iline memory modules (rimm) slots that support 128Mbit and 256Mbit Direct RDRAM technologies. A maximum of 64rdram devices are supported on the paired channels w/o external logic"......

Thanks for your help!!!😕

 

[Doctorweir]

Ummm, no PIV expert here, but I give my best...

128MBit and 256MBit refers to the capacity of the single chips on the RIMM module. 64RDRAM devices would equal 64 single chips, e.g. 4 modules with 8 chips each.
If you want to use 512MB, get 2x256MB modules (RAMBUS modules HAVE to be used in pairs anyway => dualchannel architecture), just make sure you get PC800 and NOT PC600. ECC or not depends on your preferences...but as long as you don't need error correction RAM for a failsafe server, just get normal RIMMs. Without ECC they are faster anyway (no check cycles).

Hope this helps you out 🙂

 

[Wingznut]

I looked through the .pdf manual. It says nothing about ECC support, so I would say that it doesn't support ECC.