I just recently got these: (x2)

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World% … uting/30PS16MB/

Sorry, forgot to add details- it's 12:30 here and I need some zzzz's!

Size: 16MB
30-pin SIMM
60ns
(16x8)
Fast Page Mode
Non Parity
5v

I installed them just a few days ago and they work great. I just played Descent with my AWE32 last night.

I saw those before, thanks for telling me the merchant is good, they are some of the only ones I've seen that are at all decently priced. The trouble is they are gold plated. I worry about oxidation.

One could always remove them and polish the daylights out of them I suppose if they ever got oxidized.

Wouldn't it take quite some time to oxidize? I live in MO and it gets rather humid, but I've never pulled my old desktop's memory out to check.

jmrydholm wrote:

Wouldn't it take quite some time to oxidize? I live in MO and it gets rather humid, but I've never pulled my old desktop's memory out to check.

It should take a while, yes. I could probably spray some contact protection stuff on there to help keep it happy longer too (my weapon of choice is DeOxit shield). The thing is though, you're probably running tin ram in tin slots on the motherboard. This gold stuff seems to be rarer, at least from what I've seen, but it's backwards when you hit 30 pin simms, then it's hard to find tin and easy to find gold. Apple used 30 pin simms though, which could explain it. Chances are good I'm just being anally retentive about this too.

I found some in tin, but it's parity. I'll update the title to ask that specific question. If parity works, then I can have my cake and eat it too. If it doesnt, then I'm going to have to risk it with gold. I doubt anyone would have tried parity back in the day on a sound card either, so I could be out of luck on this front.

Would the Acer part #30.0049.039 work for you? I saw some photos on google and it appears to be tin, but I couldn't tell. Here's another link to try:

http://www.memoryx.net/300049039.html

Edit: here's another to help

http://www.upgradecomputermemory.com/ram.cfm/ … -4C8F41-80.html

jmrydholm wrote:

Would the Acer part #30.0049.039 work for you? I saw some photos on google and it appears to be tin, but I couldn't tell. Here's another link to try:

http://www.memoryx.net/300049039.html

That looks like the stuff. Nice find! Maybe gold with corrosion looks better now though. 40 bucks for ram...

I did just find this post on another forum stating parity is okay. I'd like confirmation that it can work with 16x9 memory though before I pull the trigger on 22+shipping for ram. I found some parity stuff for 11 bucks a stick. Link somewhere around here...

jmrydholm wrote:

http://www.memoryx.net/300049039.html

This is for a 4MB module btw, not worth $5/piece imo

Very tricky, read this bit:

4 pcs 4MB 30-pin non-Partity SIMM

SavantStrike wrote:

I did just find this post on another forum stating parity is okay.

Hehe, I had forgotten about that old post of mine <grin>.

Anyhow, yes, the AWE32 isn't too picky about the SIMMs that you install... parity or non-parity woeks just fine, and the oficial AWE32 FAQ states: "Hardware specifications call for SIMM modules with 80 nanosecond or better access times.". So's 80Nns (or anything faster) will be just fine 😀

SavantStrike wrote:

I'd like confirmation that it can work with 16x9 memory though before I pull the trigger on 22+shipping for ram.

I can't hardly remember what I had on all of my AWE32s at the time, but IIRC I did indeed have some 16x9s on some of the cards, working just fine.

BTW (O.T.), all of the links in the afore-mentioned thread (to the MP3s) are LONG since-gone... surf here -> http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/ttmusic.htm 😀

(edit) P.S. Scroll down to message post #4 within that afore-mentioned thread, then surf to the "Soundfonts Collection" section within this thread here at Vogons -> Creative Labs Sound Blaster ISA Cards' Drivers Collection (Old Thread) <grin> 😀

rfnagel wrote:

Hehe, I had forgotten about that old post of mine <grin>. […]
Show full quote

SavantStrike wrote:

I did just find this post on another forum stating parity is okay.

Hehe, I had forgotten about that old post of mine <grin>.

Anyhow, yes, the AWE32 isn't too picky about the SIMMs that you install... parity or non-parity woeks just fine, and the oficial AWE32 FAQ states: "Hardware specifications call for SIMM modules with 80 nanosecond or better access times.". So's 80Nns (or anything faster) will be just fine 😀

SavantStrike wrote:

I'd like confirmation that it can work with 16x9 memory though before I pull the trigger on 22+shipping for ram.

I can't hardly remember what I had on all of my AWE32s at the time, but IIRC I did indeed have some 16x9s on some of the cards, working just fine.

BTW (O.T.), all of the links in the afore-mentioned thread (to the MP3s) are LONG since-gone... surf here -> http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/ttmusic.htm 😀

(edit) P.S. Scroll down to message post #4 within that afore-mentioned thread, then surf to the "Soundfonts Collection" section within this thread here at Vogons -> Creative Labs Sound Blaster ISA Cards' Drivers Collection (Old Thread) <grin> 😀

Boy is my face red.

Richard F. Nagel, composer. Couldn't possibly have been the same rfnagel from Vogons. Nope, not at all. 😁

Well thanks for the assist. This means I'm good to go. The stuf I found is this ram right here. 60NS, 16x9 parity (though saying it's parity is redundant since it's 16x9), 30 pin FPM. Most importantly, it's tin, so no galvanic corrosion. It came out to 26 and some change shipped 😀.

SavantStrike wrote:

Boy is my face red. Richard F. Nagel, composer. Couldn't possibly have been the same rfnagel from Vogons. Nope, not at all. 😁

Hehe, I'm ALL over the Internet... weather or not, you or I, even know it 🤣! Heh, had an online presence well before Al Gore "invented" it, too <grin> 😀

SavantStrike wrote:

Well thanks for the assist. This means I'm good to go. The stuf I found is this ram right here. 60NS, 16x9 parity (though saying it's parity is redundant since it's 16x9), 30 pin FPM. Most importantly, it's tin, so no galvanic corrosion.

That looks like it will work just fine 😀

SavantStrike wrote:

It came out to 26 and some change shipped 😀.

That sounds like a really good price 😀 I shudder to think what I had paid thoughout the decades for the same for all of my AWE32s.

Thats an excellent deal! I payed 2x16MB with pure gold two years ago (well, actually it was about 50e...)!

elfuego wrote:

Thats an excellent deal! I payed 2x16MB with pure gold two years ago (well, actually it was about 50e...)!

That's the price a lot of sellers want to charge. Between 30 and 60 USD per stick. I wasn't willing to pay that, it seemed too high to me.

SavantStrike wrote:

elfuego wrote:

Thats an excellent deal! I payed 2x16MB with pure gold two years ago (well, actually it was about 50e...)!

That's the price a lot of sellers want to charge. Between 30 and 60 USD per stick. I wasn't willing to pay that, it seemed too high to me.

I wouldn't pay that much either. I was lucky to have been gifted a few sets of 16MB 30p SIMM modules or I wouldn't have bothered in the first place, due to the high costs involved. But that's just me

Tetrium wrote:

SavantStrike wrote:

elfuego wrote:

Thats an excellent deal! I payed 2x16MB with pure gold two years ago (well, actually it was about 50e...)!

That's the price a lot of sellers want to charge. Between 30 and 60 USD per stick. I wasn't willing to pay that, it seemed too high to me.

I wouldn't pay that much either. I was lucky to have been gifted a few sets of 16MB 30p SIMM modules or I wouldn't have bothered in the first place, due to the high costs involved. But that's just me

Who has spare 30 pin simms lying around in 16mb format? I couldn't even find them on ebay.

SavantStrike wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

SavantStrike wrote:

That's the price a lot of sellers want to charge. Between 30 and 60 USD per stick. I wasn't willing to pay that, it seemed too high to me.

I wouldn't pay that much either. I was lucky to have been gifted a few sets of 16MB 30p SIMM modules or I wouldn't have bothered in the first place, due to the high costs involved. But that's just me

Who has spare 30 pin simms lying around in 16mb format? I couldn't even find them on ebay.

Dunno. I was very fortunate. I saw an advertisement of someone who had tons of old stuff he wanted to throw away and I ended up with more then 2 large shopping bags full of parts (he didn't want to part with his Voodoo's though 😜) and after I came home and sorted the stuff, I saw them in between them.

SavantStrike wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

SavantStrike wrote:

That's the price a lot of sellers want to charge. Between 30 and 60 USD per stick. I wasn't willing to pay that, it seemed too high to me.

I wouldn't pay that much either. I was lucky to have been gifted a few sets of 16MB 30p SIMM modules or I wouldn't have bothered in the first place, due to the high costs involved. But that's just me

Who has spare 30 pin simms lying around in 16mb format? I couldn't even find them on ebay.

Check the published link above 😀 Maybe there are more around!

elfuego wrote:

Check the published link above 😀 Maybe there are more around!

You mean the link mentioned in jmrydholms post?

jmrydholm wrote:

I just recently got these: (x2)

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World% … uting/30PS16MB/

That does look like 16MB modules to me 😉

Tetrium wrote:

You mean the link mentioned in jmrydholms post? […]
Show full quote

elfuego wrote:

Check the published link above 😀 Maybe there are more around!

You mean the link mentioned in jmrydholms post?

jmrydholm wrote:

I just recently got these: (x2)

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World% … uting/30PS16MB/

That does look like 16MB modules to me 😉

They sure are available.

And the one I posted too, although the stuff I bought cost more, and frankly I'd have gone non parity if I could have, but I'm OCD and don't want to think about galvanic corrosion.