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BigDan3131

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• Sep 11, 2005

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I have my old comp a PIII,I was looking into using it as a spare for older games I still like to play. I found a mobo that supports the 2x256 of pc133 I have and it also supports pc2100.

Here's the question: Is the pc2100 much faster than the pc133 or just marginaly?

 

avalanche83

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• Sep 12, 2005

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I think pc2100 is DDR and pc133 is sdram.

 

rvvae

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• Sep 12, 2005

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That's correct. PC2100 would be 184pin with one notch while PC133 would be 164pin plus two notches. Wouldn't say it is compatable with PC2100 unless it is one of those dual "upgradable" mobos.

 

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BigDan3131

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• Sep 12, 2005

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It is PC Chips M791G and you can use either of them in it.

 

rvvae

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That explains it. But do you have the appropriate DIMM slots for both types of ram?

 

rvvae

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• Sep 12, 2005

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Also forgot to add, the PC2100 is faster than PC133 as it is DDR200Mhz while PC1600 is 166Mhz. Hope that answers your questions.

 

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• Sep 12, 2005

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There were a few socket 370 motherboards made that used either SDRAM or DDR RAM (but not both at the same time). DDR RAM is much faster and better than SDRAM, but with the P-III architecture and that motherboard chipset, I really doubt you'll see much difference. Just use whatever you have on hand.

 

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BigDan3131

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• Sep 12, 2005

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TY for all the info everyone.

 

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• Sep 12, 2005

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I have a P3 motherboard with a 266Pro chipset that uses either PC 2100 or PC133. There is no real difference in the performance between the 2 types of RAM. I would use what ram you have available.

 

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• Sep 13, 2005

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I still have my CUV266 boards which came out at the end of the Coppermine era and are S370 and use DDR. The main advantage is you can easily run 1x512 or 2x512 MB ram at up to 166, 2-2-2-5 if you got say, BH-5. Try that with SDRAM. Very difficult to get more than 2x256 MB sticks of PC133 up that high at 2-2-2-. You don't need very good DDR to do this either.

It's was shown there is no performance increase between DDR and SDRAM when it comes to the S370 platform. But being able to run 1 GB ram at 160, 2-2-2-5 is insane, back in those days.