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Not sure if it's what he means, but in my experience 'High density' refers to less chips for a given capacity. When I used to sling PC hardware, as memory dens
by to11mtm 4y ago
Not sure if it's what he means, but in my experience 'High density' refers to less chips for a given capacity.
When I used to sling PC hardware, as memory densities increased, you would run into things like 'This Motherboard will only take a 256MB module if it has 8 chips on both sides (16 chips total), it will not take a 256MB module with 8 chips on one side (8 chips total)' Depending on the board, it might only register part of the capacity and be stable, might register part of the capacity and be unstable, or just not boot at all.
- justinclift 4y agoInteresting. Have heard mention of similar over the years, but never seen it in person myself. Sounds strange, as - without knowing any better - I'd expect the memory interface to be agnostic to the chips implementing it. eg "address 0x11111111" on 'high density' ram would be seen exactly the same as "address 0x11111111" on other ram The mind boggles. :)