upgrade of ram

bum_jcrules

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There will be a sizable improvement from EDO to SDRAM.

EDO ran around 70ns or 14.29MHz. (ns = Nanoseconds)

Your board probably runs the memory at 66MHz for SDRAM. What I am saying is that the board was probably designed for PC66. PC66 runs around 15ns or 66MHz. So you can see a very noticable difference 70ns vs 15ns. However you <b>can</b> use PC133. The board will still run it at 66MHz but it will overclock well if you choose to do so. But even if you do not intend to overclock it will make it one step less for the next upgrade and for a few bucks more what is the harm. PC133 is around 7.5ns or 133MHz.

Like I said you will see a significant difference.

Buy the PC133 stick for the best results and to have the best SDRAM available for that future upgrade.

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AMD_Man

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I would say you will notice a 15% to 30% decrease in performance. Most motherboard chipsets of the day didn't cache RAM after 64MB, therefore, with more RAM, performance decreases because the L2 won't be used.

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