Well I got my memory late last week. But I didn't quite get what I had expected. Only 2 of the 6 memory cards had the specs as per the sticker. The other 4 memory cards were either 1.5V and/or a combination of various generations. They were all ECC and unbuffered however, and they seemed to all work together on this motherboard. I'm however sending them back to the seller as I expect to be sold exactly what I had purchased. My recommendation after this exercise is not to buy older memory cards on eBay from either Hong Kong or main land China.
I'm thinking of buying these mems locally from this site. I'd be interested in any opinions out there.....:
https://www.ramcity.com.au/buy/cruc...102472BA186D?gclid=CM2O_-mo0c0CFQiUaQod_1gHaQ
I've attached a few photos of this recent exercise.
It was initially comforting to see that the 6 cards all had the exact same sticker. But I soon suspected something as 2 of the cards looked physically different. Cards 1 and 6 didn't have the top row of bumps seen on the others. I'm guessing that they were bypass capacitors and they were not required on these 2 cards.
Here's a close up of the stickers. The bar codes all look the same. That's probably a good thing.
I plugged them all in and after briefly looking at the BIOS I kicked off a memtest as you can see below. Things seemed to be going quite well and it was an hour or so of feeling quite pleased, that it suddenly dawned on me that specs were different.
Here's a close-up of the specs which I quickly deciphered. I sent the following picture to the seller. The seller then tried to convince me that the only difference was in the serial numbers of each card and not to worry.
That had me thinking for a while but after looking at the chips on each card I was able to come to the same conclusion.
I drew up this little table to try to get the point across to the seller. he has already agreed to take them back but as he sounded sincere in his email reply I felt that he may like to learn something. I try to see the better side of people
and finally, here are the specs for the memory cards. It's east to find on the internet as well as the mem chip specs.
Ah, the good old days...
