im upgrading my motherboard to one that supports DDR memory and im getting one with 3 memory slots. i was wondering if its true that you cant use one stick of ram, but you have to have atleast two of the slots occupied and fill in the rest with fillers???? if someone can help.... it would be greatly appreciated.. thanks.
Jun-12-2002 13:49
Cafster
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Boston, MA
as long as your MOBO supports the DDR memory, you can just pop in one stick and it will work fine...you dont have to worry about pairing or fillers and shit like that.
Jun-12-2002 15:29
Piet
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: billyburg, nyc
RDRAM had some stuff like that - buying in pairs etc...
but DDR does not, u can just put one stick in and it'll be fine...
I just got a mobo that supports the new DDR 333 or 2700 DDR ram, and so i bought a stick of samsung DDR 2700, only to just find out that the current line of athlons cannot make use of this extra memory bandwith, so I would have gotten the same performance out of a 266 MOBO with 2100 DDR ram... oh well...
Jun-12-2002 17:06
flystyler
Defected[JULES]Addict
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Aylesbury, UK
Well i have DDR Ram, great stuff 512mb of it
2 256mb sticks, and one slot empty.
So take it from me, you cna just have 1 stick and 2 slots free and it will b fine
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Jun-12-2002 17:18
DJ A.i
Oooo that dirty electro!
Registered: May 2001
Location: Jersey City, NJ
ahhh.. nice.. thanks everyone! some MOFO from compusa told me that i had to put fillers in and that i had to put atleast two sticks in there! lol.. thanks for your help everyone.
Jun-12-2002 19:55
Fir3start3r
Armin Acolyte
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by DJ A.i
ahhh.. nice.. thanks everyone! some MOFO from compusa told me that i had to put fillers in and that i had to put atleast two sticks in there! lol.. thanks for your help everyone.
I think he was talking about the RDRAM, I'm pretty sure the empty slots do have to have a 'dummie' stick of ram to fill the empty spots.
(someone correct me on this if I'm wrong, I'm just thinking off the top of my head on this one ) RDRAM
The SDRAM DDR doesn't.
Is pretty much just like the normal SDRAM except for the speed of course. SDRAM
The only one that had to go in pairs 'normally' was the older SIMMS.
That's because when Pentiums first came out, the address bus changed to 64bit (previously 32bit). Individual SIMM modules only do 32bit at a time, so a pair was needed to match the 64bit address bus of the Pentium.
SDRAM accesses 64bit which is why you only need one! SIMMS
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