questions on RAM

[substance12]

i've heard that the difference in CAS2 and CAS3 is not that noticable if you have an intel chip... and that the manufacturer plays a big role (specifically that Mircon CAS3 is pretty decent)... while having CAS3 in an amd chip is much worse than having CAS2 ram. i ask this because i have the CAS2 ram in my amd and the CAS3 in my intel comp. wondering if i should swap or get rid of ram or buy more.

if i am using pc100 ram on a system that supports 100mhz bus speed max... am i allowed to put in another stick of pc133 ram?

currently i my computer only supports pc100...buti use a pc133 anyways... now is this bad in anyway or is it just capped at pc100 performance?

 

[BigLance]

The way I have always understood it runnning different speed memory is ok, the system will just run at the lower speed. You should be fine there.
I can also back Micron- great memory, however I dont know about the Cas 2/3 differences from Intel/AMD...

Good Luck !

 

[substance12]

cool. so i can safely have pc133 and pc100 in the same computer (which has 100mhz bus speed)?

any other thoughts to it?

 

[AfterBurn]

You can safely mix PC66, PC100 and PC133 together in a single system, if you keep the FSB at the lowest common. However, most PC100/CL2 will run at 133/CL3.

Dont get fooled by latency by what you have heard. Its important, very important! Using the same example: PC100/CL2 running at 100MHz is just as fast as PC133/CL3 running at 133MHz.

Hope this helps,
-AB-