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To: Alf who wrote (2574)	9/22/1998 6:20:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>> Do I need to use PC 100 ram ? and what is the difference ? No, you don't have to, and in fact for a 266 or 300 it's a waste of money (see below). Difference is PC 100 ram operates at 100 mhz vs 66 mhz. 100 ram will operate at the slower speed, but so will cheaper ram. >>Thought that I had read that you have to use the PC 100 if your CPU is 350 or higher but not sure. Close. You can't use PC 100 at 100 mhz unless you have a 350 or higher PII. You can operate these cpus with slower ram, though. With corresponding loss of memory performance. As for the Kingston ram, they are one of the top-line memory makers by reputation. Perhaps others have more detailed comments. I happen to have Kingston (from CompUSA in fact) in my workstation and have never had a blip, but as everyone knows here, my stuff borders on the dinosaur age <g>. I refuse to say which side of the border. Spots

To: Alf who wrote (2574)	9/22/1998 7:15:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Tim There are others on this board who can answer your questions so much mor authoritatively than me. Thanks Spots. I'm just learning this stuff, too I do know the BH6 supports both 66 and 100 Mhz rated sdram. If you you plan to overclock or not and to what extent would be one determining factor as to the type and quality sdram you choose. anandtech.com is a good source for basic information about PC 100 and tomshardware.com for overclocking if you go that route. Clarence

To: Alf who wrote (2574)	9/22/1998 8:17:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Respond to of 14778

Tim Here is a post and several replies from Anands BBS about running 66Mhz ram on the BH6: Anyone out there using a BH6 and Pc 66 memory? I just ordered a bh6 to upgrade from my Lx6 and i will be using my 128 megs of PC66 memory in it for a while. I was wondering if anyone has been successful getting to the 100mhz busspeed using pc66 in this board. If not what speed did you make it to? I want to run my PII 333 at 4x100. (Replies:) It depends what you mean by successful. My BH6 and 'PC100' RAM (which is actually PC66) would run, even heavy programs such as unreal, with applications only exiting or crashing very occasionally. At a guess I'd say about 1 crash per day. However, when set to 66 MHz bus, my programs would NEVER crash or mysteriously exit. willjay I'm running generic pc66 SDRAM with no problem at all. I've gotten it to 103 and run's Quake II just fine, but causes problems when try to run WinStone. Haven't seen a blue screen yet and only locked up maybe twice in the past month. I have Samsung G10 RAM in my machine. That makes it PC66. It works fine at 100. Had some problems at 112 which I believe w the RAM's fault. Clarence