AMD and PC100

FMZ · Post by **FMZ** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 5:00 am

Can PC-100 ram works with AMD Thunderbird or do i need to upgrade to PC-133?
Or if it does work, am I going to take a performance hit?

Thanks,
FMZ

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 7:11 am

pc100 will work fine on the older 100 mhz fsb tbirds - you might run into problems if -

you have a multiplier locked tbird set for say 10x133 - then the most you could get would be 10x100 -although 1.33s are unlocked

unless it's really good pc100 , such as micron -8e, you'll be limited in what kind of fsb overclock you can do as well.

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 8:11 am

Just tell us the CPU/mobo combo the memory is for.

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 4:19 pm

certain motherboards... mainly VIA based boards allow you to run the memory at 100MHz while you tweak the processor...