PC100 SDRAM questions/problems

softball

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Apr 22, 2000
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I have an overclocked Celeron (566@850, FSB100, 1.85VCore) and have been unable to get the FSB up to 103MHz (bought celeron pre-tested up to 875Mhz). My question is if it's the Ram holding me back ? My pc is a few years old - mobo is Asus P2b, Win98 128MB PC100 SDRAM.

The has the following on the sticker that's on the strip:
16x64-SD-7-MRT
PC100-CL2
not sure what all that means, it also has imprinted on each mem chip:
MIRA P2V64S30BTP
8519GA10-7
not sure what that means either.

Any way I can tell if this RAM is holding me back (don't have access to any PC133 without buying it). Also, I just got an Inno3D geforce2 mx video card. Everyone says (and websites show) how it can be overclocked big !
Well, I can't overclock it at all without problems. Is the ram hurting me here too ? When I begin to overclock I start to get dots on my screen and the _,x for opening and closing windows (upper right) become garbled. Sometimes I just get a black blank screen and have to reboot if I try it to hard.

The Inno3d has a heatsink AND fan. And my slocket has the golden orb
heatsink and fan and the cpu runs cool 81 degrees or so.

Any help is greatly appreciated !
-Jerry


 

Bartman39

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In the bios if the memory is running at 2-2-2 change it to 3-2-2 and that should make the difference. Some PC100 Cas2 ram will not run over the 100fsb mark but if dropped to Cas3 it might help... The video errors are more than likely the drivers your are using, If you installed the MX with the retail drivers included on the CD then download the Detonator 3 drivers from Nvidia and use 6.26 you should get much better performance anyhow and clear up any problems...