I get all my system RAM from crucial.com. Price is decent and I have never had any problems. BTW Best Buy carries Crucial RAM but the price is outrageous. Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander JJ Rice" To: Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:47 AM Subject: Re: [OT:] PC memory > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:27:18 -0500, Anthony Toft > wrote: > > > Being in the market for some more memory in this PC, I looked up the > > characteristics and ASUS (the motherboard maker) says that I can use > > pc100, memory sellers say pc100 or pc66. I am inclined to believe ASUS. > > However there appears to be several types of PC100 memory, some that > > works with almost anything (most dollars) some that works with Intel and > > AMD but using the VIA chipset (less dollars) and stuff that _only_ works > > with AMD (cheapest). You can imagine what I would like to buy, but if it > > won't work, I am stuck. I thought PC100 was PC100 and that was it. > > I believe that this _is_ the case - PC100 is a JDEC standard, the only > other specification is the CAS which will either be 2 or 3 cycles for > PC100 (CL2 gives about 5% better memory badndwidth), additionally PC133 > will work quite happily at 100MHz in my experience. Anyone that tells you > that the more expensive memory is more 'compatible' is talking rubbish as > far as i know. You may well find that it is cheapest to get PC133 CL3 > memory and run it as PC100 CL2 memory as PC133 is more recent, or just go > down the nearest computer junk shop or swap meet or ebay. > > Regards > > Alex Rice > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.