On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 02:21, Mark Johnson wrote:
> I know this if off topic, but I don't know where else to ask and I trust
> you folks better...
Thank you :-) I'm glad to see that *someone* trusts us!
> Can I mix memory, for example, can I mix a 128 PC100 8ns and a 32 PC100
> 8ns? Or is it best not to do this?
If the RAM is of the same type, then you should have no problems. By "type" I
mean technology (e.g. EDO, SDRAM, RDRAM), access time (in ns) and clock speed
(in MHz). In your example there should be no problem, since they are of the
same clock speed and are both PC100. The capacities of the cards do not
matter. However, there is a very slight chance that the RAM are incompatible
if they are of different brands. I don't think this is really worth worrying
about, though.
It is possible to mix 133MHz and 100MHz SDRAM, or only use 100MHz SDRAM, on a
133MHz bus. This should only be done if the RAM is of good quality. My
father's Pentium III 600 (133MHz bus) has 2 lots of 100MHz (i.e. PC100) 64M
SDRAM. Good quality PC100 SDRAM should be able to be overclocked to PC133
without any trouble.
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