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Offline Zac67

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Re: Memory performance issues.
« on: July 30, 2007, 08:02:54 PM »
Depending on the chipset, you may have to decrease FSB speed as well - downclocking the CPU by 25%. Some chipsets just won't let you run RAM slower than FSB, some give you a huge speed penalty.

Just give it a try, run e.g. CTCM with PC133, then try again with PC100.

You might even get away with overclocking the PC100 sticks to PC133 - but test well before actually using it.
Another option would be to get some PC133 used - 256 MB sticks should be very reasonably priced.
 

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Re: Memory performance issues.
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2007, 09:21:12 PM »
Hmm, I always take the reported RAM/cache speeds from memtest86/+ with a grain of salt - on some platform I've seen them as much as 50% off... However, since you're just testing a single platform, there's nothing to worry about.  ;-)