What happens when you run a stick of Cas3 RAM at Cas2?

[Salvador]

I'm wondering what happens? I have 1 stick of Crucial PC133 Cas2 and I stuck 2 sticks of cheap Cas3 RAM in the machine. I'm running all of them at Cas2 right now.

Is it not supposed to run? Is it supposed to get buggy or something? I wanted to know what sort of symptoms to look for. Could it be crashing my video or causing lower picture quality or performance out of my video card?

TIA,

Sal

 

[AMDPwred]

Depends on the RAM really. What kind is it?

 

[John]

If you have any instabilities, pull the cas3 rated stick out and see if they go away.

 

[Rahminator]

I am running 2 64 MB PC133 Crucial CAS3 sticks at CAS2 for a long time now and it's all working really well. Crucial means quality so don't worry.

 

[John]

<< Crucial means quality so don't worry. >>



You're right, but Salvador said "I stuck 2 sticks of cheap Cas3 RAM in the machine"....that's not Crucial.

 

[Eug]

<<

<< Crucial means quality so don't worry. >>



You're right, but Salvador said "I stuck 2 sticks of cheap Cas3 RAM in the machine"....that's not Crucial. >>

Strangely enough for my laptop, Crucial CAS 3 PC133 was cheaper than most CAS2 PC100 512 sticks from other brands. Go figure.

 

[Salvador]

Yes.. I have one stick of Cas2 Crucial, but then bought 2 sticks of that RK Byte 256 RAM that was $10 AR at the BB sale.

The problems that I seem to notice are:

Cable internet seems to drop off and then come back after reboot. That could be because of the ATT/Excite switchover though.

I'm having problems with my new GeForce 3 Ti200 locking up on an old game and my 3d bench scores are low. As a matter of fact, I just added the other 256 stick this afternoon to see what 768 mb's would be like and the 3d Mark test score dropped about 10 points. This could be because I'm running more than 512 mb's with Win98 also, couldn't it?

Right now, my mouse seems to be dragging a bit for some weird reason.

Is this what you mean by instabilities?

Sal

 

[pm]

By setting it to CAS2 while keeping at the maximum rated FSB you are essentially overclocking your memory by running it faster than the rated spec. This can introduce instabilities and the potential for data corruption.