User Guide

ASUS P5VD1-X Motherboard 2-9
2.4 System memory
2.4.1 Overview
The motherboard comes with four 184-pin Double Data Rate (DDR) Dual Inline
Memory Modules (DIMM) sockets.
The following figure illustrates the location of the sockets:
2.4.2 Memory Configurations
You may install 256 MB, 512 MB and 1 GB unbuffered non-ECC DDR DIMMs into
the DIMM sockets using the memory configurations in this section.
• Installing DDR DIMMs other than the recommended configurations
may cause memory sizing error or system boot failure. Use any of the
recommended configurations in Table 1.
• In dual-channel configurations, install only identical (the same type and
size) DDR DIMM pairs for each channel.
• Al ways in sta ll DIMM s w ith the same C AS lat enc y. F or opt imu m
compatibility, it is recommended that you obtain memory modules from the
same vendor.
• Due to chipset resource allocation, the system may detect less than 4 GB
system memory whne you installed four 1 GB DDR memory modules.
• Due to chipset limitation, DIMM modules with 128 Mb memory chips or
double-sided x16 memory chips are not supported in this motherboard.
P5VD1-X
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P5VD1-X 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets
DIMM_A1 DIMM_B2 DIMM_B1 DIMM_A2