I am thinking about grabbing a Thunderbird. Will PC100 memory work? Why or why not?

[GraeValient]

I'm still running a ol' Celeron 366 at 550. I have a nice stick of 128MB Mushkin [PC100] CAS2 RAM.. rated at 125mhz. How much of a performance hit would I take if I stayed with this instead of buying PC133. I'd like to grab a 900-1G Thunderbird.

 

[TGCid]

Not sure about other motherboard, but the Asus A7V has a setting for pc100 or pc133 ram so it should work fine.

 

[DorkBoy]

I have bought many diff types of SDRAM and some were Mushkin, ALL SDRAM worked with my AMD CPU's.

Goodluck

 

[Grminalac]

Hello,
You shouldn't take a performance hit, the current motherboards support 100mhz fsb (200 ddr) so unless you plan on overclocking you won't get any benefit from the 133.

 

[Dulanic]

That memory should have NO problem running at 133 anyways.

 

[BurnItDwn]

you may be able to run the 8ns ram at 133 ... i have had some 8ns sticks that ran at 133 ... it would do it cas 3 ... but not cas 2 ....

you may wanna give it a shot and see if you get more BSODs ..