Ok so the memory is standard DDR2 then? That’s good news at least they are using a standard that is easily obtainable and cheap. Anyone remember RAMBUS? I am glad that was shot down in flames when Intel was propping that up as the best thing since sliced bread and a price that would have stiffled new PC purchases with memory that expensive. It was a miracle from Heaven when DDR memory was offered cheaper and eventually able to outperform RAMBUS that sent it to the graveyard. It was great to see Intel cave in as they were moving away from SDram and were never intending to use standard DDR but were forced to due to competition.
Unless it's a Xeon workstation (Mac Pro), then it's fully-buffered chips.
Anyone remember RAMBUS?
Yep, that was a disaster. Despite them being cleared, I still think they were submarining the patent through JEDEC, the memory standards body, so they could threaten their competition. But RAMBUS lives on where it's actually useful -- in game consoles.