From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Nov 23 4:52:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981D137B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 04:52:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from thea.blinkenlights.nl (thea.blinkenlights.nl [62.58.162.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B3443E3B for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 04:52:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sten@blinkenlights.nl) Received: by thea.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix, from userid 101) id 6B56939305; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:51:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thea.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6310CD581; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:51:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:51:49 +0100 (CET) From: Sten To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PC133 memory in an 164SX? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > I'm looking into expanding the memory in an AlphaPC164SX. (Truth > be told it doesn't run FreeBSD.) As it tends to be with technology > disappearing from the marketplace, PC100 memory is now more expensive > than PC133. Are there any practical or theoretical objections to > using PC133 memory in a 164SX? > > I'm under the impression that the only difference between PC100 and > PC133 are timing parameters, where PC133 is faster, so this shouldn't > be a problem, but maybe there are hidden issues such as power > consumption or I'm missing something altogether. PC133 should work, I personaly have never seen breakages due to pc133 vs 100, only due to the quality of the memory ( the c't has quite a good article about this topic ). I myself have a 164SX with 4x 256mb of ecc memory colocated which works perfectly. -- Sten Spans "What does one do with ones money, when there is no more empty rackspace ?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message