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Subject: Re: Hardware, any good techs here? :)

Author: Sean Empey

Date: 13:43:36 07/15/00

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On July 15, 2000 at 13:27:47, Peter Skinner wrote:

>I have a PIII 450 with 96 megs of ram. I want to boost that ram by 128M, so that
>I would have 192 ( I only have 2 ram slots ).
>
>The 64M DIMM that I have is PC100 ram. ( I also have a 32M DIMM ) Would it cause
>any problems to put a stick of 128M PC133 ram in there? I have it in now, and it
>sees it as I have 192, but I notice some performance loss. ( I think ). Or it is
>just my program is on a losing streak.
>
>Should there really be any problems that I should know about. I have incredible
>normal computer usage performance, as you would expect going up 100M ram. But I
>find Gandalf, Crafty, and even Hiarcs seem to run a bit slow...

It's not a good idea to mix RAM of different brand or speed. PC100 should not be
mixed with PC133. You can experience problems.

Sean



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