Hi,
My motherboard, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4, supports 16GB DDR2 RAM. It has only 4 RAM slots. Crucial website says: "Each memory slot can hold DDR2 PC2-6400,DDR2 PC2-5300,DDR2 PC2-8500 with a maximum of 2GB per slot."
So that's 8GB maximum... Why does the motherboard then support 16GB maximum?
Or is it that currently (with the current BIOS), the firmware (BIOS) or northbridge(which is the CPU) can only support 8GB for the moment, but once 4GB RAM modules are more common, they can be used one a firmware upgrade is completed?
Or maybe one has to use coreboot/LinuxBIOS to be able to use that much RAM (if it has to do some 'special' SPD stuff)?
Anyone have any insight in to this?
Srdjan
Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi,
My motherboard, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4, supports 16GB DDR2 RAM. It has only 4 RAM slots. Crucial website says: "Each memory slot can hold DDR2 PC2-6400,DDR2 PC2-5300,DDR2 PC2-8500 with a maximum of 2GB per slot."
So that's 8GB maximum... Why does the motherboard then support 16GB maximum?
Or is it that currently (with the current BIOS), the firmware (BIOS) or northbridge(which is the CPU) can only support 8GB for the moment, but once 4GB RAM modules are more common, they can be used one a firmware upgrade is completed?
Or maybe one has to use coreboot/LinuxBIOS to be able to use that much RAM (if it has to do some 'special' SPD stuff)?
Anyone have any insight in to this?
Srdjan
Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi,
My motherboard, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4, supports 16GB DDR2 RAM. It has only 4 RAM slots. Crucial website says: "Each memory slot can hold DDR2 PC2-6400,DDR2 PC2-5300,DDR2 PC2-8500 with a maximum of 2GB per slot."
So that's 8GB maximum... Why does the motherboard then support 16GB
maximum?
Or is it that currently (with the current BIOS), the firmware (BIOS) or northbridge(which is the CPU) can only support 8GB for the moment, but once 4GB RAM modules are more common, they can be used one a firmware upgrade is completed?
Or maybe one has to use coreboot/LinuxBIOS to be able to use that much RAM (if it has to do some 'special' SPD stuff)?
Anyone have any insight in to this?
Srdjan
I would not always take what the crucial scanner thingymajig as gospel.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValu...
Hi,
2009/1/8 steveydoteu alug@stevey.eu:
Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
My motherboard, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4, supports 16GB DDR2 RAM. It has only 4 RAM slots. Crucial website says: "Each memory slot can hold DDR2 PC2-6400,DDR2 PC2-5300,DDR2 PC2-8500 with a maximum of 2GB per slot."
So that's 8GB maximum... Why does the motherboard then support 16GB maximum?
I would not always take what the crucial scanner thingymajig as gospel.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValu...
Yes I've seen that page before. It does say it supports upto 16GB RAM. Also the memory support list shows a few RAM modules of 2GB each, but not 4GB.
I wasn't really taking crucial's scanner thingy as a gospel. But seems most consumer-grade motherboards can only take 2GB RAM sticks.
Srdjan
Is it possible that both the supported modules list on the Gigabyte site and the Crucial scanner have both not been updated to reflect the more recently available 4GB modules ?
It is not unheard of for mainboard manufacturers to say they support a memory configuration that is not possible (at the time of writing) with current module densities, but that would be possible at a latter point when the larger modules become available.
Just a thought
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:49:21AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Is it possible that both the supported modules list on the Gigabyte site and the Crucial scanner have both not been updated to reflect the more recently available 4GB modules ?
Or that the Crucial 4GB memory is not compatible with the Gigabyte motherboard and they don't want people purchasing 4GB modules and then returning them as "faulty". I'd certainly want to ask Gigabyte which 4GB modules are supported before purchasing.
Adam
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