Author: Gustavo Pereira
Date: 18:08:01 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... I don't think you should have problems. PC133 just indicates that it can run at 133MHz. If you want to improve the performance of your memory, enter the BIOS, and when you find the section devoted to memory, disable the auto management, and then put everything to the minimum, especially CAS latency, it should always be 2.
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