horvendile
Regular
I still lug my old VIA KT133A mobo with 256 Mb of PC133 around, and now I had decided to buy another 256 Mb for it. So I ordered a specimen. When it arrived though, I was in for a surprise.
If one looks at the DIMMs from the side they are basically rectangular with the contact pins on the bottom. On the bottom half of the short sides my old SDRAM has some, er, material removed so that they are not as long on the bottom side as the top side. The new one however does not have these notches; it is really rectangular and does not fit physically in my motherboard.
A clumsy illustration could looke like this:
Well, the question is:
What has happened? Have they changed the PC133 standard since 2001?
If one looks at the DIMMs from the side they are basically rectangular with the contact pins on the bottom. On the bottom half of the short sides my old SDRAM has some, er, material removed so that they are not as long on the bottom side as the top side. The new one however does not have these notches; it is really rectangular and does not fit physically in my motherboard.
A clumsy illustration could looke like this:
Code:
Old memory:
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New memory:
___________
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)
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Well, the question is:
What has happened? Have they changed the PC133 standard since 2001?