[nylug-talk] basic question about memory

[Sunny Dubey]

On Tuesday 20 May 2003 03:36 pm, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote:

> which I'm interpreting to mean it's not necessarily harmful to put
> memory of different speeds into your computer, but that all the memory
> will work at the lowest common denominator

No, they will work at whatever the bus speed is.  So if the bus speed is at 
100mhz, and you put in 200mhz RAM.  The extra speed of the ram doesn't matter 
because the bus is still at the slower speed.

> Maybe the current price difference is more an indication of both why
> that's what I got when I upgraded it & why it died after only 1.5 yrs

Both MIcron and Crucial are great companies.  Crucial is actually a division 
of Micron.  (It should be noted that often Crucial charges more for RAM than 
most other vendors.)

> though memorysupplier's selection process actually recommended the $80
> 133MHz 256MB http://www.memorysuppliers.com/kin25pc144pi1.html

They might be a mistaken, confused, or are trying to get your money, hehe

Sunny Dubey