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S.Lewis coughed up:
> "Thomas G. Marshall"
> <tgm2tothe10thpower@replacetextwithnumber.hotmail.com> wrote in
> message news:0TjZc.3877$P97.2080@trndny04...
>> Ogden Johnson III <oj3usmc@yahoo.com> coughed up the following:
>>> "Thomas G. Marshall" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ogden Johnson III <oj3usmc@yahoo.com> coughed up the following:
>>>
>>>>> "Edward J. Neth" <ejn63@netscape.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> CL-2 is too aggressive for the Dell system. You need CL-2.5 for
>>>>>> PC2700, or CL-3 for PC3200.
>>>
>>>>> OK, Edward. For those of us whose last exposure to the
>>>>> intricacies of computer RAM chips dates back to the 286/386 era,
>>>>> and who have been happy, since those days, to put our trust on
>>>>> RAM matters in computer vendors and crucial.com, could you do us
>>>>> a favor? WITH is CL-nn? Why the apparent "golf style" rating,
>>>>> where lower is "better"? Unless, of course, it is too
>>>>> "aggressive". Which raise the question, how does a computer
>>>>> memory chip exhibit aggression? And if you could put your
>>>>> response at the "Computer Memory for Dinosaurs" level, it would
>>>>> be appreciated.
>>>
>>>>
http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20040119/index-02.html
>>>>
>>>> The whole article is pretty good----I placed you in the middle
>>>> where it discusses CAS Latency...
>>>
>>> Thanks, Thomas. Saved the link for perusal later. At first
>>> glance, that place might be understandable enough to save a lot
>>> of head shaking over a lot of "new stuff". Never be fully up
>>> again, but at least I may get back where I know enough to know
>>> what I don't know.
>>
>> Well for me, what I don't know I don't know is always amazing me when
>> parts
>> of it shift into what I don't know.
>>
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> I didn't know that.
I did. (wrap your head around that one
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