I've owned one SIMMsaver since back in the day for tinkering purposes, but I've actually never used it, IIRC.
On a less silly note: the DATA/Addressing lines aren't made all THAT much longer to make timing an issue for the SIMMspender hack.
In the straight thru iterations, it should be duck soup to keep all the traces/patches equal in length.
Since many of the signals are exposed on the top and bottom layers on the MoBo and on the SIMMs, why is shielding for the CAS/RAS lines above board so important? It's not an insurmountable obstacle to use tiny co-ax, by any means, but it's not like crosstalk or interference should be an issue with chunk combos being strobed sequentially.
Then again . . . I could easily be misunderstanding that last bit . . . that's usually the word on my assumptions. :-/
p.s. thanks for the clarification on the purpose of the really dumb boards in the dumb PCI Adapter pic, G. I was wondering about their function, addressing made a lot more sense to me, but the color coding of the wires said AC POWER COLOR CODING which is another issue in DC for PCI slot adapters. Looked like a stupid way of doing power, but it'd be waaayyyy better filtered coming from the other slots than from a Molex Y Cable.
On a less silly note: the DATA/Addressing lines aren't made all THAT much longer to make timing an issue for the SIMMspender hack.
In the straight thru iterations, it should be duck soup to keep all the traces/patches equal in length.
Since many of the signals are exposed on the top and bottom layers on the MoBo and on the SIMMs, why is shielding for the CAS/RAS lines above board so important? It's not an insurmountable obstacle to use tiny co-ax, by any means, but it's not like crosstalk or interference should be an issue with chunk combos being strobed sequentially.
Then again . . . I could easily be misunderstanding that last bit . . . that's usually the word on my assumptions. :-/
p.s. thanks for the clarification on the purpose of the really dumb boards in the dumb PCI Adapter pic, G. I was wondering about their function, addressing made a lot more sense to me, but the color coding of the wires said AC POWER COLOR CODING which is another issue in DC for PCI slot adapters. Looked like a stupid way of doing power, but it'd be waaayyyy better filtered coming from the other slots than from a Molex Y Cable.