When I bought my Pentium 200 MMX, my HDD was 1,7 GB, so... Yeah.
I still have my 33600 modem. That sound when it finally connected after 90 unsuccessful calls - unforgettable.
Of course it existed. I had 32 Mb on my Pentium 200.
We had the same PC—the standard setup back then. I also had 32 MB of EDO RAM and a 1.7 GB hard drive (MMX200 and S3 Virge 325).
When I went to buy it, they offered to upgrade the hard drive to 2 GB or 2.5 GB, but I declined because it would have cost more money and I didn’t think it was necessary.
If both of you say it existed, I dont doubt you...I just never seen a 16mb stick myself, i mean it makes sense by general computer standards already anyways.
Do you know why most oddly (not divisble by 2-4) GPUs die on people like the 2070 super? unadmitted fact is that they use 1GB ram chips inside of them rather than 2-4GB, usually a mass amount like all of them or a mix match combo.
I avoided that GPU line as soon as I noticed the uneven number for that reason without even considering why I thought it was a bad idea until later...I always keep computer parts in my mind as a sense of nibbles and bytes because they are. Anything odd is automatically trouble...so 16MB makes perfect sense in reality, I just never seen them myself that I can recall and I have an assortment of old dimm sticks around going back to ddr2 (which means it was likely 1st gen)
In the past, all graphics cards had 1 GB chips (1024 MB , 1048576 KB), 2 GB chips didn't exist.
GPUs have 32-bit RAM controllers, and each RAM integrated circuit is 32 bits. If there are 4 active controllers, that’s 128 bits, and 4 x 1 GB = 4 GB, or 4 x 2 GB = 8 GB
The Titan Maxwell had 1GB chips, and the Titan Kepler had 0.5GB chips. There’s no problem with that.
Having an odd number of controllers, such as the 1080 Ti and 2080 Ti which have 11 because one is defective, isn’t a problem either.
Another issue is that the chinese Juan makes a piece of crap and then deceives people, as with the GTX 970, where they started cutting CUDA cores, then kept cutting ROPs and cache, and then didn’t know where to connect the last RAM chip because the controller was just hanging there, so he botched the job and lied, hoping it would go unnoticed. But it wasn’t a problem with the RAM chip itself—they were all the same—nor with the controller, but rather something further back.
So, it had 7 usable controllers (224-bit) 7 x 0.5GB = 3.5 GB, and besides the dumb controller, sitting there all alone and hard to access (0.5GB)