Anyone Else Ever Wondered About This To?

[Shannon]

Modern-day motherboards are built to support 3GB of ram. As far as I know, the maximum amount of ram slots are 3. Now, the highest you can go in terms of megabytes is 512mb per stick. That adds up to 1536mb of ram - which is only half of what the mobo can support. What is the point of supporting 3GB of ram? I'd rather see faster FSB's than anything.

 

[Cobraboy]

Yeah, it has crossed my mind at some stage, and I vaguely remember seeing a mobo with more then 3 slots, but I'm not too sure about it.
Are you sure the highest RAM sticks are 512?
Maybe the 3GB is the mobos limit if you overclock your memory...

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by Cobraboy
Yeah, it has crossed my mind at some stage, and I vaguely remember seeing a mobo with more then 3 slots, but I'm not too sure about it.
Are you sure the highest RAM sticks are 512?
Maybe the 3GB is the mobos limit if you overclock your memory...

I said as far as I know, there may be mobo's with more slots, I don't know. I'm fairly sure that the highest ram is 512mb. That's what a computer tech I know said.

I'd be afraid to overclock my memory to meet the 3gb.

 

[Cobraboy]

I'd be afraid to overclock anything by a big amount, just a little bit I'd be fine with...

[EDIT]Here we go: Generic 1GB, DDR-SDRAM, PC333

But look at the price, NZ$830 each

[EDIT #2] 2GB, DDR-SDRAM, PC200/266, ECC, Registered

$3,005.75

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by Cobraboy
I'd be afraid to overclock anything by a big amount, just a little bit I'd be fine with...

[EDIT]Here we go: Generic 1GB, DDR-SDRAM, PC333

But look at the price, NZ$830 each [/EDIT]

Well, wadda ya know...

 

[Cobraboy]

See the #2 edit...

 

[Tom M]

Most mobo's have more than 3 Dimm slots for Ram (I have 4) and more than likely all P4 mobo's that support Rambus have 4-6 Dimm slots because they must be installed 2 at a time.
In reality that level of Ram is only useful for servers and I wouldn't worry about it, as the only websites that you will shop on will carry consumer level goods (512MB sticks)

 

[km]

i have a MOBO that can support 4GB

here look at it

http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-SINXP1394(GA-8SQ800 Ultra2).htm#