Old memory and the new board I want to get, will it work.

[wreed]

I bought recently the DOTD at Buy.com for the Kingston PC100 256mb Ram for my PC, now I am going to update my pc to the K7T Pro-2a and I want to know if I can overclock the PC100 to PC133, and if so how.

 

[Subversal]

Sure you can. In the BIOS you'll have an option in Advanced Chipset Features. You'll see and option for HostClk + 33 (or 133) set it at that. Or if you download the 1.8 or 1.9 BIOS form MSI's site you'll see DRAM BY SPD, say NO for this then go to DRAM CLOCK and set it for 133. Also change the CAS Latency to 3 at first, this will put less strain on your memory. But if it can handle 133 at CAS 2 (mine can) then go ahead set it for that.

 

[wreed]

Sweet thanks a lot for that info I am getting the board in the next week or so, along with a 1 GHZ processor and giving my old machine to the inlaws, but they do not need 384 mB RAm so I am taking the 256 out...LOL Thanks again.