Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-04 Thread pasi savilaakso
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: THREAD: -- On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? Nope. I bought 2 128MB PC100 for

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread debian
@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, 3 June 1999 5:05 Subject: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100 Sorry for the offtopic question: I need to upgrade ram on one of the computers. It's a 3 year old Gateway, and it's got only SDRAM slots. The bus speed is up to 66 only. I've been looking at the ram prices, and everywhere I see

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? Nope. I bought 2 128MB PC100 for my 66MHz ASUS, hoping that the dimms would still be usable when I get a new motherboard someday. I ran

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? Nope. I bought 2 128MB PC100 for my 66MHz ASUS, hoping that the dimms would still be usable when I get a new motherboard someday. I

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? Nope. Really? I thought that the ONLY difference between SDRAM for 66mhz and PC100 SDRAM for 100mhz was the access time (8ns vs 10ns). If they are both 72pin dimms, SDRAM (NOT ECC), and 3.3v

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
THREAD: -- On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? Nope. I bought 2 128MB PC100 for my 66MHz ASUS, hoping that the dimms would still be

RE: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Thursday, June 03, 1999 5:16 AM, E.L. Meijer (Eric) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? Nope. Please explain why you think PC100 shouldn't be in a 66MHz board. Do you have any ponters

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? Nope. I bought 2 128MB PC100 for my 66MHz ASUS, hoping that the dimms would

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: I don't know why the dimm went bad. I wouldn't think it's because the 100/66MHz issue. I would surprise me too. I also run PC100 memory at 66 MHz with future upgrades in mind. old SDRAM had 5V voltage, PC100 is 3.3V But the DIMMs have

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-03 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:21:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Oleg Krivosheev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: E.L. Meijer (Eric) [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100 On Thu

OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-02 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Sorry for the offtopic question: I need to upgrade ram on one of the computers. It's a 3 year old Gateway, and it's got only SDRAM slots. The bus speed is up to 66 only. I've been looking at the ram prices, and everywhere I see only SDRAM PC100. As far as I understood from the docs, it's for

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-02 Thread shaleh
The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? Nope.

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-02 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? Nope. Although there should be still some of this older stuff around. try: www.pricewatch.com hope this helps.

Re: OFFTOPIC: SDRAM PC100

1999-06-02 Thread Colin Marquardt
* shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The question is: if I buy a SDRAM PC100 chip, will it work on a computer with bus speed of 66Mhz ? Nope. What? Why shouldn´t they run with a *slower* clock? The only thing that makes me think is that a 3-year-old computer has already SDRAMs... Colin --