Re: OT Ram upgrade options
David, my post may be a bit late, but here goes:
In regards to your question about SDRAM, I would buy as much as I could
afford of whatever is cheapest on pricewatch.com. Theoretically, any
faster memory should clock back to work with your system, as long as it
fits into the slot (Don't buy RDRAM, OK?!). You can get PC150 now as well,
but it still should work. One advantage of getting the faster stuff, even
if your current board won't support it, is that if you do upgrade your MB,
you can switch the RAM over to the new system. I would buy name brand
memory, e.g., Kingston, Crucial, etc. The way RAM prices are these days,
it's only a little more for the good stuff. (Others, however, will claim
the generic is just fine, and name brand isn't worth the extra. This is
simply my opinion and experience :>)
I would guess from the model no. that your board is running Pentium
II/III/Celeron. They are not as picky about RAM as Athlon boards. On some
AMD-based boards, getting the good RAM is essential, as these systems can
have problems with slight timing mismatches between sticks, and between
what the board expects. Good luck, hope this helps.
Allen Linkenhoker
-new to Debian (Progeny 1.0), but I've used everything from Apple IIs to
IBM mainframes over the last twenty years
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:52:35 +0930 (CST)
From: David Purton <dcpurton@chariot.net.au>
To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: OT Ram upgrade options
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I'm thinking of buying some more ram for my box.
This is foreign ground to me, and so I have some questions :)
background:
at the moment I have two 32MB sdram dimms on an ASUS TXP4-X mainboard.
My box is about 3 years old.
The mainboard manual has this to say:
Two sockets are available for 3.3 Volt Unbuffered SDRAMs of either 8,
16, 32, 64 or 128 MB to form a memory size of between 8MB and 256 MB.
Memory Speed setup is required through "Auto Configuration" in BIOS
Chipset Setup of the BIOS software. If both 60ns and 70ns memory are
used set "Auto Configuration" to 70ns. Do not use memory modules with
more than 24 chips per module.
questions:
1. I gather you can get PC66, PC100 and PC133 MHz ram. Does my board
limit my options to one of these speeds? If so, how can I tell which
speeds are supported?
2. Is there anything else I should be careful of?
cheers
dc
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