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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   4 May 2015 21:18 
 To:  koswix      12 of 18 
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I have 2G, and I frequently occasionally feel it's not enough it would be nice to have more. But my muvvaboards maxed out @ 2G.

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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    4 May 2015 22:06 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      13 of 18 
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No, it's 64bit Windows 7 and no graphics remapping or onboard graphics.

The 2.75 GB (actually 2882560 KB) thing crops up in loads of old queries with no real solution, probably because the answer is to go and get a matching set of DIMMs. I don't know why it's that exact amount but I wouldn't be surprised to find it was a quirk of the Award BIOS from a few years back.

Two of the DIMMs have the same chips even though they look different: Samsung K4D5108320-UCCC. Can't find an exact match on the web, but Samsung's charts suggest it's SGRAM (???) 3.3V. Another is Hynix and actually meets the spec. The other DIMM also meets the spec but the timing is different from the Hynix.

It's a pity really, I haven't done much mucking about with hardware for a year or two and I was quite enjoying it. I suppose I was a bit naive to expect I'd get 4 DIMMs with a fighting chance of working together. I'm not even convinced they are all DDR400.
 
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    4 May 2015 22:10 
 To:  koswix      14 of 18 
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I wonder if he's still in Paisley (the town - don't want to think about his clothes tbh)
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    4 May 2015 22:23 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      15 of 18 
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If I'm honest 2GB is plenty for what I want this box to do most of the time.
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   5 May 2015 09:36 
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)       16 of 18 
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Not really the point if you specced and paid for 4GB though.

But then again, I'm not a hardware man.

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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    5 May 2015 15:32 
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)      17 of 18 
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A wise man once wrote thus:
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2G is the only way to live your PC life.

Yes, it is annoying but then I suppose that they would argue that they've provided what I ordered and if I'd wanted 4GB for one computer I should have told them and they'd charge accordingly.

That said, if it's correct that the DIMMs marked K4D5108320-UCCC are SGRAM (i.e. the memory modules on them are designed for graphics use) then they could hardly have made them more incompatible if they'd tried.
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 From:  JonCooper   10 May 2015 16:33 
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)       18 of 18 
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you ordered online, you have the right to reject goods for any (or even no) reason

get them to make it right
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