REALLY Cheap AmigaOne 1 Gig Ram?

At the bottom of this page, there are 3 different 1 Gig SDrams available. One is PC133 MHz ECC Registered.

Does it work in AmigaOne? AnyOne?

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@Atheist

Your link is broken.

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TMTisFree

Hi TMTisFree,

How embarrassing, I almost always check my links. Thanks Jurassicc.

"1GB, SDRAM, PC133, CL=3, ECC, Registered, 133Mhz, 3.3v, 168Pin DIMM, 128Meg x 72 - Major Brand"

It was $374 and now it's $110. I think it's the right kind of ram on the correct sized PCB, except, AmigaOne has an IC quantity problem. Too bad they have'nt found a SW workaround for it.

@Atheist

This one is even cheaper than yours ... dunno if it will work though, the site states it does...

@Atheist

Hmmm...do you mean that any "out-of-the-box" 1G SDRAM for the AmigaOne must be modified in order to work, and therefore no existing ones will work as is?
I can find 1G 168 pin ECC SDRAM for $33 US online. Wow, if only it would work!

Okay, if 1G won't work, who can point me to the cheapest 512k that will work in my uA1-c?

Thanks,

Scott

@Atheist

CAN they be modified anyway?

Id love to have a working 1 GB module in my XE, unfortunately i dont think i will ever be able to

My XE has a problem (hardware - SouthBridge?) where everything over 512 MB will cause random errors, crashes and misbehaviours en masse.

That goes for a (known working) 1 GB module and two (known working as well, even the same manufacturer and brand i have in right now) 512 MB modules

As soon as RAM above 512MB is accessed it booms

Id pay money to Hyperion if this problem could be workarounded in UBoot or OS4 ... i know it wont happen though, now that bugfree hardware will become/is already available ... though unless there will be a more powerful hadware than my XE, i wont think about switching

Wish I would notice a really cheap -or even affortable- A1 mobo some day and not just a RAM module.

@CountRaven

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Why even be concerned about that, if you can run both OS4.1 and MorphOS on your:
"PegasosII PPC G4/1.0GHz"

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@Atheist

Not sure about your 1Gb ram. I have been recently trying cheap ram from a company that sells via eBay. I have tested 256Mb, 512MB and 1Gb with varied success. It is all made by Samsung and is a lot less expensive that the Ram you listed. I will to post the results of my Ram tests to Intuitionbase once I get a chance.

TrevorD

@Raziel
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Uh, Mobile Intel 915GM chipset?!

@billt

Yeah, had me puzzled as well, but someone told me that firm is "reliable", whatever that means when bying from overseas

Hi Raziel, others,


I have 2 Gigs of PC 133 MHz ECC Reg ram in my AmigaOne 800 MHz G4. It seems to work.... But just today, I decided to load the ram OVER 1 Gig and start more programs to see what happens. I copied the Battle of Wesnoth LHA to 9 places in RAM: to cross one Gig, and then I started AWeb.

AWeb LHA gets copied to RAM: then decompresses, then runs from RAM: (that's how I've been using it for a couple years). Well, I've been running for one hour now, we'll see if I can at least get a few days.

1 Gig is on one PCB with ICs on both sides. There are 9 with each one having a second IC on top, equaling 36 ICs total. I worked it out to, 32 Megabytes (256 Megabits) per IC, remember, 4 IC's are used as error bit storage.

I requested they be custom made (at least they claim they had to), at a cost of $380 Canadian each.

Have they worked okay? I don't know, but I have had uptime of:

System has been up since 15-Jun-08 03:06:43 (total uptime 32 days, 19:15:54)

That's my record, and have had 26, 27, 28 day stretches too.

What's amazing is, AWeb was run without restarting, and almost from when I started the computer in most of those long on periods.

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@number6

I am lovin my Peg2, it is my best system!

AmigaOne would do the collectors trick for me...