Combining PC100 and PC133 SDRAM

germanamangermanaman
edited November 2006 in Hardware
I've got an old ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard with dual PIII 1GHz with 133 FSB and 1GB of PC133 SDRAM. I have some extra SDRAM laying around from other computers, but its PC100. I was wondering if I could combine PC133 and PC100 RAM on this motherboard, or even just in general would it work? I figure that the PC133 modules will just drop down to 100MHz, but not sure if that'll mess with the FSB speed of the processor. I'm not really worried about having slightly slower memory speeds because I not really using the computer for anything major, probably just some home server stuff with Linux.

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  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited November 2006
    Yes, the PC133 modules will drop down to PC100. There's no effect on FSB, you'll be running asynchronous with the RAM, but not so much of a performance hit that you'll notice on a Linux server. I do know some motherboards are finicky about RAM density. It's best to make sure the sticks are the same density.
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