Anyway to run 133Mhz SDRAM on 100mhz CPU??

gredodenda

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Ok, I have Crucial 256 133mhz SDRAM and I have 900mhz celeron which runs at 100 mhz. If I install this to a mobo, then the SDRAm will go backward to 100mhz instead of 133 mhz, right??? then it will slower the performance.

Is there a way or specific mobo that can make sdram work at 133mhz???

Can intel or Via chipset make this work??

thanks
gredodenda


 

Regalk

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Any Intel I815EP or VIA Apollo133A board has the option to run the memory at 100 +33
Asus TUSL-C
ABIT ST6
MSI 6309E
Soyo 7VCA2
etc
 

chizow

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PC 133 is backwards compatible to 100mhz. It gets tricky though if you try running PC100 at 133mhz. Most components have no trouble running at a lower spec, and people often get their components to run above spec, ie. Overclocking. I don't think it will make the RAM any "slower" if you decide to put it in a 133mhz bus system later on, but there are real engineers who frequent these boards that can talk to you about capacitors and burn-in etc of all the little transistors. All that stuff is over my head though :)

Chiz