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is this the right deccision ?

THIS Main Board ( im getting that mobo no matter what ...its the memory ima fter advice on )

with

THIS memory ?

1GB Module PN – OCZ26671024VP

im going fro only one 1gb module, as im going to upgrade to 2gig dual channel as soon as i can... its just cheaper that way.

asus specifies non-ECC memory... how do i know if this is non ECC, and can anyone spot any other compatability issues ?
cheers
Rick
 
cool cheers
i thouight it weas the other way round as ive seen a lot of memory stated as none-ECC... but as you say ive never seen one stated ECC.

cheers

would you say OCZ is the better out of all the value ranges ?
im hoping to save some money too as it coems with a heat spreader.

or would i be better off just getting one without a spreader, as i fancy a thermaltake true light one :) ...or will they not fit on DDR2 memory... i dont know the difference in thickness etc ?

or is the difference between say corsair, OCZ Geil Gskill value ranges just too minute ? ( not sure if all of those offer value DDR2, just an example )
Rick
 
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Heat spreaders do very little in way of cooling. If you want to cool modules then a 80mm / 120mm fan would do much better. Also DDR2 runs at about 1.8v so I don't think cooling would be needed unless you were going to push up the voltage for an OC.

With brands, I would say any of them are fine. With value memory, it's going to all be pretty much the same. It's when you get to the expensive memory and you're overclocking your machine thats when certain manufacturers are better than others. Since all manufacturers come with lifetime warranties then I'd just get cheapest out of the brands you've listed. They (and Crucial memory) are the main manufacturers and I don't think you can really go wrong with them.
 
lol... im a totalt sucker for going for things that look good :(... i really cant help it lol
didnt think they run aty that low a voltage .
i know heat spreaders are kinda pointless, but... if all value stuff is similar i suppose its a bonus to get one included.

i wanted to go to higher end memory... but single 1 gb modules seem to be like gold dust !! and still... a little more money than i want to spend. i dont want to buy memeory buit im forced to with my new mobo :( lol dont ya just love computers :mad:

thabnks for the help man, somtimes answers like that are just what people need.
cheers
Rick
 
No problem :) But I know what you mean. At high end memory, people want memory in pairs for dual channel, but sometimes the budget just isn't slack enough to allow 2x1GB. Why not go for 2x512 then another 2x512? Intel motherboards don't suffer the same as AMD where AMD has to drop back on the memory settings for 4 sticks. Also there may be a performance increase with 4 sticks (4 Bank interleave I think it's called) but I'm not entirely sure about that or what the performance increase would be if any.

That assumes the board has 4 DDR2 slots though,
 
yep 2x DDR2...
id go for 4x 512, but im kinda secretly wanting to uupgrade to 3 gig, then 4 gig eventualy lol... shhhh dont want the parents to find out :P

im sure that board allows me to run 1 sert of dual channel and an extra stick, with no loss in performance... making that odd number ( 3 gig ) totaly okay !... until ofcourse i get the 4th stick lol.

OCZ do some HIGH end modules seperate, but theyre stupid prices and i cant find them anyway lol ( which is probs a good thing.

when i get my second stick in the near future, do i HAVE to get exactly the same brand and model and speed, or just the same capacity?
i dont really underastand timings etc... ive read dozens of FAQs about timings but i just dont get it lol.
 
Dual channel isn't as picky as it used to be, but to avoid any problems, I'd get the same brand and model. Dual channel is all about equal banks of memory (single sided and double sided) and as long as one channel of memory has the same number of banks as the other channel then it should work in dual channel (this is how it was possible to get Dual channel with three sticks on certain platforms, 2x256MB on one channel and 1x512MB on the other). But it may be different with DDR2
 
oh btw, i meant 4x DDR2 slots...
when you say banks... are you talking about the acctual black chips that are on the sticks ?

im trying to take in all that your saying... memory is one of the last things on my list of " things to learn to understand computer hardware" lol
thanks m8
ill drop a post as soon as ive got it up and running !!
hopefully ...by the end of the week :D
thanks again for your time
 
Banks refer more to sides of memory. In DDR, you get single sided and double sided memory. Best way to think about it is single sided has 1 bank, double sided memory has 2 banks. For dual channel, there must be equal banks of memory on each side. 256MB chips were usually single sided, 512MB were double sided but recent developments has meant there are single sided 512MB sticks and 1GB sticks are double sided. Not sure if holds exactly for DDR2, but is the case with DDR1
 
thayts easy enough... but just to make sure... we are talking about the black chips on the sticks yea ?

i know the stuff i have in my macchine has chips on both sides, and the machine downstairs ( SDRAM ) lol has sticks with chips on only one side
 
Iam digging this thread up because I got some double sided ddr2 chips (16x64mb) and apparently asus boards wont take them. Iam wondering how strict these things tend to be, if it just means running them slack then its no problem.

They work fine in a cheap asrock board so I cant see the problem but the asrock board only does single channel and asus has dual available
 
Is it an AM2 or P4 board? If it's AM2 then it should work as the memory controller is on the CPU. If it's a P4 board, then since the memory controller is on the mobo, results vary between motherboards. It may need a BIOS update to work but if it specifically specifies that it can't take double-sided then looks like new mem/motherboard time. But at the very least, try it and see if it boots. Worst that can happen is the machine won't boot.
 
Its a p5nd2 so P4 and nforce4 chipset I think it is. It does say so in the manual but I just wondered if anyone had ever tried anyway.

Its not branded memory but I noticed even some expensive ram uses 16 chips for big size modules like this, think it was Corsair I saw with 16 chips on it as well










I found out that some 1gb sticks on the supported list are 16 chip double sided components. In the diagram on the component pdf it appears to be 8 chips per side so they recommend memory specifically ruled out in the manual :confused:

dam confusing!


Asus supported list - http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=227&model=558&modelmenu=1


The chip they recommend, spec sheet-
http://download.micron.com/pdf/datasheets/modules/ddr2/HTF16C64_128_256x64AG.pdf

Online version -
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:...ea1&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a


Maybe its because of a new bios revision, I have no idea if my memory will work though so I guess I just have to try it and hope its not on the list just because its too obscure. Thanks anyway Dunky
 
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The only difference between makes is the quality of chips and the quality of pcbs. Basically if there's a double-sided chip which is on the recommended list then it should work. There's very little difference between two manufacturer's memory sticks - the recommended lists are just a list of modules which have actually been tested. You do get the odd incompatibility but those are between specific pcbs/memory sticks and motherboards - even then it usually fixed with a new BIOS revision.

Good luck!
 
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