pc133 or pc100?

[Guest]

I just bought a new 1000 Thunderbird. Its multiplier is locked to 10 so the FSB is 100MHZ. What is the point of pc133 SDRAM? Who uses it unless they are overclocking? I bought pc100 knowing what my FSB speed was. Am I a complete MORON? (maybe dont answer that last question).
Thanks all and peace.

 

[yoda271828]

You're right, the Athlon FSB is only 100Mhz when not overclocked. But some Athlon chipsets (VIA KT133) can run memory asynchronously. The memory bus will run at 133Mhz and the CPU data bus will run at 100Mhz DDR (200Mhz). So you can use PC133 memory if your chipset supports it.

 

[Guest]

Hell yeah, thanks yoda. I just checked my MB manual (havent built my system yet) and it supports asynch. Im gonna change my order tommorrow to pc133. Peace out.

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