PC100 or PC133 for Duron 600 ??

[ride525]

I have one Duron 600 system running at 800 or 850 using PC100 memory and Abit KT7. I'm building a second similar system.

Should I be using PC133 memory ? If so, why?

Thanks...

 

[han888]

i will take pc133 because the prices is almost the same!

 

[Windogg]

I'd go with PC133 because:

1) Its cheap. It costs only about $5 more for a stick of PC100.
2) It pretty much guaranteed that it will run CAS2 @ PC100.
2) It damn cool to say PC133 over PC100.

Windogg

 

[paulip88]

Another reason, PC133 will give better performance over PC100, especially on a Duron system b/c the Duron has less L2 cache and depends more heavily on system memory.

 

[ride525]

Is there much difference in performance with PC133 over PC100?

 

[Modus]

When you up the memory bus to 133 MHz, you gain roughly 5% performance in real world apps and games. And considering that PC133 is priced almost identically to PC100, it's well worth it.

Modus

 

[ride525]

Thanks,

Anyone else?

 

[paulip88]

Agree with Modus. Also, PC100 is pretty old technology. It would probably depreciate a bit faster than the PC133, and it would also prove more worthless if you decide you want to use it to build another system later.