Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:51:49 +0100 (CET) From: Sten <sten@blinkenlights.nl> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PC133 memory in an 164SX? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44-Blink.0211231348410.22117-100000@thea.blinkenlights.nl> In-Reply-To: <arlui2$25u$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > I'm looking into expanding the memory in an AlphaPC164SX. (Truth > be told it doesn't run FreeBSD.) As it tends to be with technology > disappearing from the marketplace, PC100 memory is now more expensive > than PC133. Are there any practical or theoretical objections to > using PC133 memory in a 164SX? > > I'm under the impression that the only difference between PC100 and > PC133 are timing parameters, where PC133 is faster, so this shouldn't > be a problem, but maybe there are hidden issues such as power > consumption or I'm missing something altogether. PC133 should work, I personaly have never seen breakages due to pc133 vs 100, only due to the quality of the memory ( the c't has quite a good article about this topic ). I myself have a 164SX with 4x 256mb of ecc memory colocated which works perfectly. -- Sten Spans "What does one do with ones money, when there is no more empty rackspace ?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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