Single Sided or Double Sided

Pinkeyes · 18 Sep 2007 at 11:29

Bit of a general question this.

I have had a few issues upgrading my memory in my shuttle (there is a thread on here about it)
The Manual states that it will accept 1 double sided memory stick or 2 single sided.
So I want to buy 2 single sided 1 Gig sticks. (I *think* I have 2 Double sided - but not quite sure. There is 16 little chips on each stick if that helps!)

The one I am looking at getting now is a Corsair VS1GB400C3
How do I know if this stick is single or double sided ??

Any help would be appreciated.

RaiderX · 18 Sep 2007 at 11:48

single and double sided should work fine, only difference is that each chip on the single sided stores more

Pinkeyes · 18 Sep 2007 at 13:02

Manual states that Double Sided memory will work fine when only 1 Memory stick fitted.
If you want to populate both slots, only Single Sided can be used.

RaiderX · 18 Sep 2007 at 13:13

should be fine with double sided, it shouldnt make a diff if one or 2 sticks is used, if only single sided sticks work when 2 is inserted then i find that very strange

Pinkeyes · 18 Sep 2007 at 13:22

RaiderX said:
should be fine with double sided, it shouldnt make a diff if one or 2 sticks is used, if only single sided sticks work when 2 is inserted then i find that very strange

The manual states otherwise, and the 2 sticks I have (I think) are double sided, but are stated to work on this board. They don't - and thats the problem.

Amonlym · 18 Sep 2007 at 13:27

as per pinks other thread - hes got 2 * 1 gig double sided, and only 1 at a time works. 2 together is dead.

i jsut googled the SN25P - and it says its NF4 / Athlon 64 based. so i cant see why it shouldnt work. but clearly, it doesnt. Lots of things could be the limiting factor - board layout could cause excessive signaling noise with to many sticks, i know the older athlon 64's could only do 2 sticks at 333/2T (my laptops 3400+ CG clawhammer for example)

im pretty sure all the more recent ones, and certain mobos with Cg's can do 333-1T, and E6 cores definately do 400/1T with 2 big sticks, dropping to 400/2T with FOUR!

as i advised in the other thread, id give crucial a call,s ee what they say - maybe they can provide 2*1 gig single sided?

only other thing to try is setting very long (3-4-4-10 2T) timings at a very low freq (say 266 or even 200) and try boosting v-core a notch to see if it works like that. it its a mobo limit tho, not much can be done.

good luck