On Sunday 01 September 2002 08:28 am, Ray Williams wrote:
> I am building a new system using an Asus MB P4T533 with a P4 1.9.
> The manual at one point shows the MB with four rambus slots using
> 232 pin RDram and on another page two slots 184 pin rimm sockets.
> My MB has two memory sockets so I ordered a stick of 184 pin Rambus.
> Now, some one informed that all P4T533 MBs use 232 pin memory.
> Can anyone give me the correct answer for this and tell me where I
> can buy the correct type of Rambus memory for this MB. Thanks,Ray

Ray:
Well, if you have a P4T533 motherboard, you do have the wrong RAM -- it has
2 232 pin sockets. However, if you have a P4T533-C motherboard, then you've
got the correct chips. Asus has lists of recommended RAM chips for each board
at the following pages:
P4T533: http://usa.asus.com/mb/socket478/p4t533/specification.htm
P4T533-C: http://usa.asus.com/mb/socket478/p4t533-c/specification.htm

There was a recent review of these boards at Tom's Hardware:
http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainboard/o2q2/020624/i850e-07.html
(and the following page) that explains the differences between the two models.

Regards,
Carroll Grigsby

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