How to set Motherboard so that I can use PC133 memory?

[dodo]

I have Aopen AX6BC mother board and I am using PC100 memory right now. I bought one PC133 memory. How can I set my motherboard so that I can get rid of my PC100 memory and only use PC133 memory at the PC133 speed? Or where I may find some useful information of how to do it? Thanks a lot.

 

[ShadowFox]

take out the PC100, put in the Pc133 and look through your bios till you find a setting for ram clock, set that you 133 and you're done

 

[Budman]

You have a BX motherboard,unless you want to overclock your system a lot you're stuck at 100mhz.

 

[Generalen]

Use both the 100mhz and the 133mhz, then your investment wasn't totally los. You will have more memory.

 

[dodo]

I do overclocked my CPU from celeron 400 to celeron 450. How to overclock to get 133Mhz and is it safe to do that?

Thanks.

 

[Budman]

I highly doubt you 400 celeron can do 6x133= 800mhz

Right now if you're using a 400 celeron at 450 you are at 6x75mhz=450mhz

so dont bother getting pc133 if you're running at 75mhz,your pc100 is more than fast enough.

It's a BX chipset so you cant set the ram at +33 like in a Via chipset.

 

[dodo]

Yes, that is exactly my setting, 6x75mhz=450mhz. Now I would not bother to set it to 133 which is basically impossible. While the only thing bothers me is that I did not see a lot of performance inprovement after I add 256M memory to my original 128M memory. That is strange and I can not figure out why. Can someone gives me some hint? Thanks a lot.

dodo

 

[bigshooter]

If you are running win2k or xp you should notice a lot of difference. Win9x/me will not benefit the same way.

 

[smp]

It depends on how much memory your system is using. More memory doesn't necessarily equal more performance. It depends on how much memory your system is using under normal operation. Win2k and XP use a lot of memory just running, so when you run apps and stuff, if you only have 128 your system will start to use virtual memory, which acts like ram, but is actually being written to your hard drive. Your hard drive is slower than RAM so it will be slow, if you have enough ram, it won't use the virtual memory (well, it does anyways) as much, thereby giving you some more performance.
If you are running win98 you have to get an app that will show you how much ram your using because 98 doesn't have task manager. If you are using NT/2K/XP you have the task manager which will tell you. Find out how much memory your system is using, if it's not using 128 meg, then that's why you don't notice an increase in performance.