Memory for older chipsets...

[jbmx4life]

I got 2 older computers that I am looking into picking up used memory for. Upon reading the manual/specs for each, it sounds like they can only take 128mb sticks. One motherboard has the 440BX chipset and the other had a VIA MVP3 chipset. I found a couple of charts on the net tho that say the 440BX can handle upto 512mb and the MVP3 up to 1GB. Is this correct? Can the chipsets take 256mb sticks? The 440BX board only has 2 DIMM slots and a Slot1 CPU. The VIA MVP3 has 3 DIMM slots and a Socket 7 CPU. Do I need to look for low-density modules for these or will anything (SDRAM (PC100/133)) work?

TIA for the help.

EDIT: OK now I am seeing that the 440BX can take upto 1GB and the MVP3 upto 768mb. I am assuming that the 440BX canNOT handle 512mb sticks tho so it would be limited to 512mb max IF 256mb sticks work. The MVP3 on the other hand might be able to handle the 256mb sticks on all 3 DIMM slots for the 768mb's. Correct?

 

[Atl530i]

I was running PC100 on my SKT7 board of the time, which was based on the chipset you're running as well as an AMD K6-2 350. The same with the 440BX chipset. At one time, I did run PC133 on my DFI 440BX board of the time also. It ran fine without any errors though.

I had 512 megs of RAM on my 440 board also. I never got above that much until I upgraded to a Pentium III.

 

[invi[tus]

I got 2 older computers that I am looking into picking up used memory for. Upon reading the manual/specs for each, it sounds like they can only take 128mb sticks. One motherboard has the 440BX chipset and the other had a VIA MVP3 chipset. I found a couple of charts on the net tho that say the 440BX can handle upto 512mb and the MVP3 up to 1GB. Is this correct? Can the chipsets take 256mb sticks? The 440BX board only has 2 DIMM slots and a Slot1 CPU. The VIA MVP3 has 3 DIMM slots and a Socket 7 CPU. Do I need to look for low-density modules for these or will anything (SDRAM (PC100/133)) work?

TIA for the help.

EDIT: OK now I am seeing that the 440BX can take upto 1GB and the MVP3 upto 768mb. I am assuming that the 440BX canNOT handle 512mb sticks tho so it would be limited to 512mb max IF 256mb sticks work. The MVP3 on the other hand might be able to handle the 256mb sticks on all 3 DIMM slots for the 768mb's. Correct?

High Density 256mb sticks should work fine on the MVP3, I owned a number of mvp3 based systems back in the day, just remember to use pc100 or pc133 rated to run pc100 spec. (Note not all pc133 will run pc100 without errors)

And yes, if I remember correctly the max stick size on the 440bx was 256mb.

 

[jbmx4life]

well I have 2*128mb sticks comming this week, so we'll see where that puts me for now. I wish that I could find some sticks locally that I could "test" to see if they work with the chipsets before I throw money at them.