Jesus doesn't want me to upgrade!!

[jayeff]

The manual for my K7T Turbo (MS-6330) ATX Mainboard tells me, with a nice big warning sign:

There are three kinds of DIMM specification supported by this mainboard: PC133 and PC100 If you use 100Mhz CPU Bus Frequency, PC100 and PC133 DIMM Specs. is supported. If you use 133MHz CPU Bus Frequency, only PC133 DIMM Specs. will be supported.

Is that three is it? I make it two. It would have been helpful if they had given that to someone who didn't know what the f**k they were talking about to read through to point out it reads like total gibberish.

Besides which I have no idea what MHz my CPU Bus frequency is or how to find that out.

So I'm stiffed.

Jesus hates me.

Jay

 

[Crashman]

Get PC133 and you won't need to worry about what your stock bus speed is.

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[knowan]

I don't even know if you can still get pc-100. There's no price difference between pc-100 and pc-133, so get the pc-133.

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[HammerBot]

Is that three is it? I make it two.

Depends on how you count:

1) Bus freq 100, PC100 ram
2) Bus freq 100, PC133 ram
3) Bus freq 133, PC133 ram

 

[jayeff]

HammerBot makes it three, but then Hammerbot understands what the writer of my manual meant to say!!

On the basis of the responses, (thanks) as long as I go for PC133 I'm safe either way.

Got the guy who does this for a living to pop round with a 512MB stick of PC133 and load up my board. Seemed ok till I ran a game then it went nuts. Crash and burn!! Spent 3 hours dicking around with bios settings and Nvidia driver settings before it was concluded that the stick must be screwed. Till I buy a new stick I'm back to a piddling 128.

Jay

 

[lhgpoobaa]

Satan says PC133 is very nice and will work well.

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[Octivus]

...and then God disappeared in a puff of logic.

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[jayeff]

Satan right, new stick of PC133 work fine, hail Satan.

Ooh look, Tom's got a new picture. Has he had a head transplant?

Jay

 

[lhgpoobaa]

Thats right, let out your anger and hate, embrace the dark side!

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