Goodbye generic ram, hello Crucial!

[NAC]

My PIII 550e has been cruising along happily at 733mhz since I got it 10 months ago. I knew my cheap generic PC133 ram was holding me back. This evening I popped in some nice PC133 cas2 Crucial ram. Increased the memory settings from medium to turbo, enabled cas2, and slowly increased the FSB. It got up to 149 before hicupping. I'll settle on 146, since 146*5.5 is about 800. I'm sure that I could disable cas2, or slow the settings back down, and shoot the processor above 800. But I like the settings maxed out

Don't remember exactly what Sandra reported my memory bandwidth as before. But now it is 310 CPU, and 348 FPU - very healthy.

 

[bonkers325]

amen

 

[NAC]

What the heck -
I'm gonna reboot, set the cas to 3, and see what this baby can do.
I'll be back...

 

[RichieZ]

NM

 

[DarkMajiq]

That RAM is good stuff

 

[AmbitV]

eh? I have same ram, same processor...running at 144mhz FSB on soyo 6ba+iv and my Sandra memory scores are over 400

 

[Dan]

Good RAM definitely makes a difference. I use Mushkin myself.

 

[Assimilator1]

Vman

Is that a 256Mb stick you using?
(I'm ordering 1 for my Soyo 6BA+III)

 

[conlan]

NAC , tell us what happens when you turn down your settings and crank that puppy up ok? that crucial rocks!

 

[SlickVic]

compuwiz1 sells some good, inexpensive PC-133 RAM--Go here to check it out...I bought a 256 mb stick for $114, and that stuff ROCKS...

BTW, my Sandra memory scores:

ALU-516
FPU-564

 

[AmbitV]

yep, 256 mb

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Heh, from my experiences:

You can skimp on the CPU, the vidcard, the sound, and the CDROM drive, but NEVER skimp on the RAM and Motherboard!