Memory Question

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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