Memory Question

[slick306]

Does anyone find it wierd that 3 year old PC100 Memory is running at 133mhz 2-2-2? I have a bh6 motherboard, and I bought a Celeron 850 to overclock. The Celeron overclocks to 1133mhz, and I didn't tihnk my memory would be able to do the 133mhz bus, but I have had no problems with it? Does anyone find this weird? and is there a way to test for sure what kind of speeds my memory is running at? I have tried Sisoft Sandra and the speed is the same as pc133 cl2 memory, but I know that sisoft sandra is a synthetic benchmark. I have 1 generic PC100 32mb dimm, 1 MICRON PC100 64mb Dimm, 1 MICRON PC133 DImm

Slick

[DAppel]

That´s not uncommon.

I´ve got a old generic PC100 32Mb stick that does 133 CAS2, while my new PC133 128Mb (generic also) stick only does 133 at CAS3.

[deez]

in sandra go to mainboard information module and you can get more info about your ram there

[Lancelot]

I've got a PC100-222 stick running 132.44Mhz @ 3-2-2 together with generic PC133-333 crap so I guess it's not uncommon if you have some real quality PC100. What brand/speed is it anyway?

[slim_lim]

I have 2 64mb pc100 cas3 generic memory sticks bought at different time in different places that I run @ cas2, and I tested to work fine @133mhz. So I would say that it isn't at all uncommon and all SDRAM is pretty much the same. When you buy pc133 form a quality manufacturer you assure that the memory has been tested and will work flawlessly at higher specs, but it doesnt mean generic memory won't: they just don't promise you.

[Super]

I have found that Kingston Value Ram handles the MHz pretty well, as well as being CAS 2.