___ Can Dell Willamette based MBs handle "High Density" PC-133? ___

[Blain]

A fellow at work has a Dell system that is based on a 1.8GHz. Willamette P4. I know his MB is running PC-100/133 memory.
He's asked me about upgrading his 128mb of RAM. I'm just not sure that his MB will run with high density modules or not.

I'm not up on early P4 MBs. Can someone tell me what chipsets were used on the early Willamette MBs, that ran PC-100/133?

 

[Boonesmi]

the intel 845 is an early p4 chipset with support for pc133

and yeah it supports high density dimms



**edited to add**
remember that the willamette had low clock speed and small cache (which made it a very poor performing cpu) and to get any performace at all it needed to be used with high bandwidth ram

early p4 with a board using pc133 will really suck
you would be better off with an 800mhz P3

 

[Blain]

Thanks for the reply.

Last summer when I installed a NIC card for the dude, I told him Windows XP would be happier with more than 128mb.
But he's a little on the cheap side and just stayed there until he noticed his system slowing down. Now he wants some more punch from it.

I figured deframenting his HD and adding another 256mb on memory would help smooth him out.
There's no way, given his "tightness", that he would pop for a new MB... much less a MB, DDR and Northwood.