Help! What the hell is this memory for?!

[Li'l ol' me]

I've just bought what I thought was a bargain stick of 512mb DDR memory. I
didn't know the timing, but thought I'd likely get PC2100.

I wish!

The make is Samsung (M383L6420BT1-CA0), and the chips are marked
K4H560438B-TCA0

There is also a label marked "IBM 512mb simm_nsNS 64Mx72 100hz 2.5v DDR ECC"

It's a very odd looking chip with 9 pins each side and 3 tiny ones in a row
just above the pins on one side.

After a few spurious google searches, this is the only decent link I've
found:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:8KzGcavxiXkJ:www.gpmemory.com/DDR%2
0SDRAM.htm+m383l6420bt1+samsung&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

So it's registered ECC memory and may even be DDR200 (not sure).

I've tried to fit it in an nforce2 and nforce1 board, but both either spew
it out or ignore it.

So I just need to know- what the hell can I do with this stuff!

 

[steven67@]

I've just bought what I thought was a bargain stick of 512mb DDR memory. I
didn't know the timing, but thought I'd likely get PC2100.

I wish!

The make is Samsung (M383L6420BT1-CA0), and the chips are marked
K4H560438B-TCA0

There is also a label marked "IBM 512mb simm_nsNS 64Mx72 100hz 2.5v DDR ECC"

It's a very odd looking chip with 9 pins each side and 3 tiny ones in a row
just above the pins on one side.

After a few spurious google searches, this is the only decent link I've
found:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:8KzGcavxiXkJ:www.gpmemory.com/DDR%2
0SDRAM.htm+m383l6420bt1+samsung&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

So it's registered ECC memory and may even be DDR200 (not sure).

I've tried to fit it in an nforce2 and nforce1 board, but both either spew
it out or ignore it.

So I just need to know- what the hell can I do with this stuff!

..

Yes, it's DDR200, CL2, Registered and ECC. And, it was built using
64Mx4(256Mbit) chips

The "A0" in the part number indicates DDR200 (100MHz @ CL=2, tRCD=2, tRP=2).

 

[Li'l ol' me]

.

Yes, it's DDR200, CL2, Registered and ECC. And, it was built using
64Mx4(256Mbit) chips

The "A0" in the part number indicates DDR200 (100MHz @ CL=2, tRCD=2, tRP=2).

Isn't this stuff used in servers and the like? If not, where can this stuff
realistically be used? Is it sought after much, and what's the going rate
for this stuff?

 

[Spinner]

memory. DDR a
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:8KzGcavxiXkJ:www.gpmemory.com/DDR%2

Isn't this stuff used in servers and the like? If not, where can this stuff
realistically be used? Is it sought after much, and what's the going rate
for this stuff?

Yes, ECC is commonly used on server boards.
We recently purchased a similier chip for $70.00 US.

 

[Li'l ol' me]

in
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:8KzGcavxiXkJ:www.gpmemory.com/DDR%2

Yes, ECC is commonly used on server boards.
We recently purchased a similier chip for $70.00 US.

But will it work in ANY desktops, and being DDR200, isn't it limited to
chips like durons, some celerons, and some P3s that work at fsb100? The
nforce1 I tried it in had a duron running on 100fsb, and the board spat the
RAM out!

 

[Spinner]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:8KzGcavxiXkJ:www.gpmemory.com/DDR%2

But will it work in ANY desktops, and being DDR200, isn't it limited to
chips like durons, some celerons, and some P3s that work at fsb100? The
nforce1 I tried it in had a duron running on 100fsb, and the board spat the
RAM out!

Probobly very few desktop boards will be able to use it.