Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:45:09 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rob Hagopian <> | Subject | Re: PentiumII's |
| |
Well, it can't do 5-1-1-1 at anything faster than 66Mhz, but no PPro boards that I have seen do more than 66Mhz. (according to spec. I presume that if you can push a motherboard faster than spec you can push the BEDO faster than spec)
-ROb
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Antonio Dell'elce wrote:
> Robert Hagopian wrote: > > > Antonio Dell'elce wrote: > > > > > >What PPro/P-II MB supports DIMMs? All the new ones are Natoma > > > >chipset which only supports FPM/EDO/BEDO SIMMs...just from the spec > > > > > >sheets I've seen. There are a couple of P-II chipsets coming out > > > > > >soon that'll probably support SDRAM's, etc. (GX, LX) > > > > > > > Where the heck does one get BEDO anyway? I cant find the stuff > > > > anywhere. > > > > > > Think twice before buying BEDO.... and go to > > > http://sysdoc.pair.com/ram.html ... > > > It may help.. > > > > Sysdoc says that BEDO is the fastest thing except for SDRAM. As you'll > > > > see right above, there are no PPro/PII chipsets that support SDRAM. So > > > > if I have a Dual PPro (Titan Pro) or PII (Tahoe-2), why would I think > > twice about BEDO (if I could find it- It seems that BEDO has been > > mostly > > bypassed since the Pentium chipsets now support SDRAM)? > > > > -Rob H > > It says, at a certain point: > > The main downside of the really fast BEDO RAM seems also to be the > incapability to cope with bus speeds faster than 66 MHz. > > This is a good thing not use BEDO, other its difficulty to be found... > (and probably its price would be > an issue..) > > > > -- > Antonio Dell'elce -- also at uh886@freenet.victoria.bc.ca > >
| |