From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 22 01:13:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA15143 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 01:13:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA15125 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 01:13:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) From: groggy@iname.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA04475; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 04:56:48 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 04:56:48 -0800 (AKDT) X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: "Mark J. Sommer" cc: Jamie Norwood , jjohnson@spry.com, mahe@twam.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mixing RAM for FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: <199809211439.IAA10132@argotsoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Another thing to keep in mind is that if you can mix, you'll probably slow > your system down. Most motherboards that allow mixing will run at the slower > SIMM speeds. I.e. SDRAM typically less than or equal to 12ns, SIMMs typically > less than or equal to 60ns, the result is the overall machine will run its > memory bus at the 60ns mark. i wonder is 12ns is overkill. i haven't done any calculations, but i wonder if the RAM could be accessed fast enough to take advantage of that speed. ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message