Re: [SLUG] Memory Question

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 11:26:15 EST


Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> Please excuse my ignorance. I haven't followed hardware much in the last
> few years.
>
> My P133 machine will take 256M in 72 pin SIMMs, or up to 128 in a single
> DIMM (168 pin SDRAM package). Here's the problem. I have the manual for
> the motherboard, but it doesn't tell me what speeds of memory it will
> take. Memory costing what it does right now, I'd like to remove my SIMMs
> and replace them with a 128M DIMM. But I don't know what speed to use.
> The motherboard supports 60ns or 70ns SIMM modules, but I can't figure
> out what speed DIMMs it will support. Does anyone know a way to tell
> this from the data I've given? What other data might be needed?

Buy the cheapest. A P133 isn't going to "need" anything faster than
60ns or 70ns or so. The "speed" of RAM is just the _fastest_ rate at
which the chips can be refreshed. They'll always work at slower refresh
speeds.

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