A motherboard for PC 100 RAM?

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My friend's motherboard died and he wants to replace it. He has an older Duron CPU and PC 100 sdram. Can you buy a board these days that will accomodate this? I am assuming that DDR chipsets are not backward compatible to PC100 memory.

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[TheInvincibleMustard]

For something like that, it gets more difficult to find things new from retailers, and no DDR and regular SDRAM are not compatible due to different numbers of pins.

Your best bet might be to go take a gander over at the FS/FT forum and browse through there. I'm sure you could probably find something that a member doesn't want any more and is selling cheap ... probably much cheaper than you'd expect to find elsewhere online.

HTH

 

[DimZiE]

DDR and SDR uses differents memory slot (DDR only had one notch while SDR had two notches)

you might want to check out secondhand first generation DDR boards. usually they had two sets of memory slots one set for SDR and the other set for DDR modules, that way you could use the old PC100 an you got the option to switch to DDR memory without having to shell out more money for another board

note : most of those kind of motherboards only supports PC2100 DDR memory

 

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Thanks guys. I've advised him to buy a new Sempron, Shuttle mobo, and PC2700 for $127. at Newegg.