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Re: Anyone know anything about "piggy backing" memory chips?

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From: daytripper
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:05
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:18:37 -0500, "RamFan" <RamFan@Ramfan.com> wrote:
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>"JMI" <ingramje@wctel.net> wrote in message
>news:b8hm8e$81on$1@news3.infoave.net...
>> Hello,
>>
>> Anyone know anything about "piggy backing" memory chips?  Quite sometime
>> ago  I vaugely recall reading something about being able to stuff more memory
>> into your motherboard, but I haven't heard much about that since.   Is
>> something like that even possible with Pentium III & IV motherboards?

>I assume you are talking about "risers" which allowed multiple chips to be
>plugged into a single mobo slot- no, there is no such thing anymore.  On the
>plus side, memory modules (256mb, even 512mb) that are affordable today
>would have been unheard of or so expensive that you could not have even
>thought of buying them.
>--
>Ramfan- 3/10's of 437, row MM #3-4.

There *are* actual "piggy backed memory chips" to consider...

http://www.staktek.com/products/products1.html
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