Asus P5VDC-X 1.7.1 Overview, 1.7.2 Memory Configurations, 1.7System memory

1.7System memory

1.7.1 Overvi ew

The motherboard comes with two 240-pin Double Data Rate 2 (DDR2) and two 184-pin DDR Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMM) sockets.

DDR2 DIMMS are notched differently to prevent misplacement in DDR DIMM sockets.

The following figure illustrates the location of the sockets:

Color	Sockets
Blue	DDR_1 and DDR_2
Yellow	DDR2_1 and DDR2_2

P5VDC-X

DDR2 B1 DDR2 A1 DDR B1 DDR A1

P5VDC-X DDR & DDR2 DIMM Sockets

•To prevent damage to the motherboard, do not use DDR and DDR2 memory simultaneously.

•Due to chipset resource allocation, the system may detect less than 2 GB system memory when you installed two 1 GB DDR2 or DDR memory modules.

1.7.2 Memory Confi gurati ons

You may install 256 MB, 512 MB and 1 GB unbuffered non-ECC DDR/DDR2 DIMMs into the DIMM sockets using the memory configurations in this section.

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