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- From: poffen@rushmore (Russ Poffenberger)
- Subject: Re: Can I mix 70ns SIMMS with 80ns SIMMS
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 20:33:46 GMT
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- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
- : In article <19088@fritz.filenet.com> darnold@fritz.filenet.com (Dave Arnold) writes:
- : >I am upgrading to OS/2 2.0, and so I need 8 megabytes of RAM.
- : >My Northgate elagance currently has 4MB of 80 nanosecond RAM (I determined
- : >this by looking at the chips which have a -8 suffix). I am having trouble
- : >finding 80 nanosecond chips. Can I safely mix 80ns chips with 70ns chips
- : >for use with OS/2? I was told that OS/2 is very sesitive to memory.
- :
- : You are simply putting in faster memory, which should not cause any
- : problems. (Doing the reverse, trying to put slower memory in a system
- : already using faster memory, might cause problems.)
- :
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- Only if the memory is slower than recommended by the motherboard. Memory
- systems in PC's are totally asynchronous.
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