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To: grok who wrote (121)	9/24/1999 3:06:00 AM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 271

There is still something funny. There is a hard limit of 32 devices on a Rambus channel since there is a 5 bit device address field in the protocol. If 16 devices per RIMM works then you'd only be able to have two RIMMs anyway since you max out at 32 devices on a channel. You can't have 3 RIMMs each with 16 chips, but having 3 RIMMs is still useful for the other combinations it allows. For example, the PC may ship with 128MB (8 chips) and you can expand it to the full 512MB without throwing away the original module. However, if 16 chips per RIMM doesn't work and you can only have 8 per RIMM then with only two slots you have 384MByte max. You mean 256MB max.