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This question is similar to the following: But asking the broad question of who to believe when seeking memory upgrades?
- What will happen if I install more RAM than specified in manual?
- What happens when more RAM is installed than the motherboard supports?
An MSI-7309 (K9N6SGM-v) Has (2) slots to fill. I am not exactly sure of the capacity. Included below are links to conflicting specs. I know that it can hold at least 2 Gigabytes. I would like to get 4GB in there. Without having to pay for return shipping or a restocking fee.
2GB
4GB
8GB
TheSavo
Posted 2012-02-14T15:47:47.247
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But is it possible that the Spec page for the board is trying to be too general, and apply to all the boards in that series? I saw that firmware update changeLog you mention. That seems to indicate that the reporting of what amount of memory was recognized. What about the memory config sites? – TheSavo – 2012-02-14T16:16:42.580
Even if the BIOS was updated to accept more RAM, probably the mobo hardware was not. – m0skit0 – 2012-02-14T16:32:48.623
It's possible, yes. But I'm willing to bet that around 2006-2007 2GB memory chips were not in the norm, and a BIOS update was needed to get that memory available to that system. It looks difficult to get very specific results for this, I don't think with my google-fu we're going to be able to determine verbatim if this is possible. – jidar – 2012-02-14T16:38:41.983
Also keep in mind that the memory controller for these boards was on the CPU, not the mainboard. Hence BIOS changes allowing for more memory as it was not a CPU limitation. – jidar – 2012-02-14T16:40:11.140
@jidar. So would looking @ the stats of the processor be more helpful? – TheSavo – 2012-02-14T17:29:56.467
I spent a few minutes reading wikipedia on this when I first answered your question and didn't see any hard numbers backing up the memory controllers limitations. Being a 64bit processor, I'd assume this is basically a non-issue (as a memory controller). – jidar – 2012-02-14T17:46:21.010