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Memory question

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ECUHITMAN

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Dumb Question: I have two 128 mb pc 133 (cas2) of one type of memory (memory card: infineon) and I was thinking about getting another 256 mb pc133 (cas3) of crucial. This will not cause any stability problems will it??? I dont think it will, but just wanted to be sure. Thanks
 
It may or it may not. It depends on what OS you are using. Are you overclocking? If you have probs lower the cas2 chips to cas3. That may help.
 
I have windows 98se and i am not over clocking. How much of a preformance difference are we talking about between cas 2 and cas 3???
 
Depends on what you do on the computer. For gaming, cas3 will cause a framerate loss. If you're just surfing, word processing, etc, it doesn't really matter that much.
 
I've never really had any issues mixing and matching memory.
The only problems I ever remember having was mixing memory
within a memory bank. (IE. 4 in 30 pin or 2 in 72 pin.) Since
all DIMM's these days have their own memory bank, it's a
non-issue now. 🙂

If I decided to overclock, I wouldn't dare mix memory.
I'd go all CAS2 Micron, Infineon, Samsung or Mushkin.

For the longest time I ran 1 stick of Generic 128 MB
and 2 Generic Sticks of 64 MB on my Gigabyte GA-5AA
motherboard and had a wierd issue where when you first
turn on the machine, the machine would only count up
to the first 128+64 and would ignore the second 64 MB
stick. Hitting the reset button during POST would
always fix it. I just attributed it to a wierd quirk
in the BIOS and lived with it.

 
It should work fine.... but id pay the extra $10 dollars and just get the cas 2... Your memory only runs as fast as its weakest link... so if you have 2x cas2 and 1x cas3... it will run at cas3.

i've heard the performance differnce can be noticeable.


hope that helps
 
To answer you question. CAS2 and CAS3 will cause no probs for you, except possible lag in games as mentioned above. You will have this probelem though. Win98 has problems with memory over 256Meg so adding 256Meg to your 128Meg may cause problems with the OS. I would get the 256Meg and just us it. Keep the 128Meg incase you goto Win2K or sell it. 🙂
 
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