PC133 RAM on 100 bus?

[TopHat2]

PC133 RAM is very cheap in my part of the world at the moment.

Q: Are there any potentila problems running PC133 on a 100Mhz Bus?

 

[butchrecon]

Nope. You will be fine. It will just run at the lower speed. If its cheap but it. You never know when you may upgrade to a 133 bus. James Collins
Systems Support Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

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[dakota81]

That 133MHz is by no means what the chip is build to only support, but rather the maximum the chip can support.

Think of it in terms of CPU speeds: you can always underclock a CPU with no ill-effects. But it's when you try to overclock CPU's that they can turn sour.

 

[duges]

I ran into a problem once mixing PC66 with PC 100 memory. After switching the PC 100 memory to the first memory bank, everything went fine. Apparently, some motherboards want the faster memory in that first bank.