Nope, its Dual Density.
On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:37 AM, Geke wrote:

The bottom line first:
If a 512MB PC133 SDRAM RAM module for the G4 Digital Audio has chips
on one side of the stick only, can it be low-density?
Thanks in advance!
Geke

History of this case:
My G4 DA had 3 RAM sticks: 128, 256, and 512MB. I wanted to increase
the RAM and bought a 512MB stick. It didn’t work. Then I asked here
what I had missed, and the conclusion was that I should have bought
low-density RAM.
(Searching the group for "RAM digital" will find that thread in 2nd
position; for some reason I can’t add to it anymore.)

Then I bought a low-density stick, and it’s working fine. I was happy!

Then I thought: why not max out the RAM? So I bought another 512MB
stick, this time from a different company -- the first offer was not
available anymore. But this stick, even though it’s advertised as low-
density, has chips only on one side, and it doesn’t work. (I tried it
in all three slots.) Now I want to complain to the company that they
have sent me a wrong stick, but first I want to be certain that it
really can’t be a low-density one.

There’s almost nothing printed on the chips, only two lines like this:
64x8SDRAM P
0810
and, vertically, something looking like a batch number that varies
from chip to chip:
8XJY  889H  8XK2  8XL8  5YJB  F7JB  8ZBQ  9348

For completeness, the description they give on ebay:
512MB 168PIN PC133 SDRAM LOW DENSITY 133MHZ 512 PC 133

Product Details:
• 168-pin unbuffered DIMM
• Density: LOW DENSITY
• PC133 133FSB
• 3.3 Volts
• 6 Layer unbuffered
• CAS Latency 3
• 4 Bank
• Off-chip driver (OCD) impedance adjustment, and on die termination
(ODT)

Technical Information:
Memory Size: 512MB SDRAM 168Pin
Number: 1 x 512MB
Memory Speed: 133Mhz

More Information:
512MB x 1
Non ECC
Non Registered
UnBuffered
6 Layer
Non Parity

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