SDRAM VS EDO

[Nosferatu]

I have a motherboard that can accept either 64 Megs of SDRAM or 128 Megs of EDO. Which is the better combination? Is more better in this case?

 

[AndyHui]

I assume you either have Socket 7 or a Super socket 7 chipset. Depending on the FSB speed of the system, in most cases you will proabably be better off going with 128MB of EDO RAM. Older Pentium class motherboards do not implement aggressive enough timings to really make SDRAM perform better than EDO RAM in those systems.

 

[Erasmus-X]

But then again, SDRAM is lot cheaper than EDO RAM. So I'd probably pick up some SDRAM instead.

 

[AndyHui]

That's true, although it depends if you already have the EDO RAM, or you have to buy new RAM. If you have existing EDO RAM, it would still be better to have 128MB of EDO RAM. With more RAM, you will hit the swapfile on the hard drive less often, which results in faster performance.

 

[bacillus]

I wonder if his board can use both at the same time! I'm saying this because I've recently been working on a pine technology m/board with a p166 which would do that but you had to set the voltage jumper for the combination to 3.3V as opposed to 5V with just the edo ram!

 

[Zucchini]

i don't think you can mix, i think the progression in tech was dram, edo, then sdram.

 

[Nosferatu]

I'm not sure if it can support both types of memory. I always assumed that it was one or the other. As for the motherboard, it is a old socket 7. Although I have a newer faster machine, this was my first and I am kinda attached to the thing hehe. In it I already maxed out the SDRAM with 64megs. The damn thing grinds like there is no tomorrow, but that might also be because I haven't scorched the original install from 96 or 97. Im still running the original Win 95 first edition on it. LOL. There is so much useless stuff that can't be removed without reformatting its not even funny. I guess I want to breathe new life into it, by adding more ram and reformatting sniff sniff....

 

[Zucchini]

he's right your better off with 128 windows isn't very hot with 64

 

[bacillus]

<< i don't think you can mix >>


that's exactly what I've done with this m/board, 16 mb of edo &amp; 32 mb sdram!
I guess that it's possible in only a few m/boards!