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RAM woes - Possibly accidentally bought high density sticks for a Pentium II build?

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First post, by EmberBlitz07

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Greetings, VOGONS.

I've been planning a Pentium II DOS/Windows 9X gaming build and ordered the processor, graphics card and RAM, which is all fine and dandy, until I noticed one thing.

The RAM sticks I bought were likely high density, where most P2 motherboards didn't support high density natively.

I'm really not sure what I can do as the seller doesn't accept returns, so I might see if I can trade the RAM stick (128MB) for a low density one if it turns out to be high density.

Stick is a 128MB Kingston ValueRAM KVR133X64C3.

Intel Pentium II 400MHz ✅
S3 Trio 3D/2X 4MB ✅
128MB SDRAM ✅
Siemens Nixdorf D1064 ✅
AZTech AUDIO TELEPHONY 3500 (maybe) ✅

Quantum Bigfoot TX 8GB with IDE connection and Molex power support

Reply 1 of 3, by EmberBlitz07

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For reference, here's the stick I got. s-l500.jpg

Intel Pentium II 400MHz ✅
S3 Trio 3D/2X 4MB ✅
128MB SDRAM ✅
Siemens Nixdorf D1064 ✅
AZTech AUDIO TELEPHONY 3500 (maybe) ✅

Quantum Bigfoot TX 8GB with IDE connection and Molex power support

Reply 2 of 3, by EmberBlitz07

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Luckily the seller has a Samsung module listed (Samsung M366S3253FTS-C7A 128MB) that appears to be low density, hopefully we can sort things out.

Intel Pentium II 400MHz ✅
S3 Trio 3D/2X 4MB ✅
128MB SDRAM ✅
Siemens Nixdorf D1064 ✅
AZTech AUDIO TELEPHONY 3500 (maybe) ✅

Quantum Bigfoot TX 8GB with IDE connection and Molex power support

Reply 3 of 3, by Robbbert

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Can't see your attachment.

Looks like you purchased synchronous RAM which I suspect would be for servers rather than a consumer product.

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