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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Memory speed (was Re: Windows Parity Errors - A bad Intel 486)
- Keywords: 486 80ns SIMMs
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.201925.962@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 20:19:25 GMT
- References: <1992Aug5.050824.771@Comtech.com> <1992Aug7.184216.24943@gwl.com> <BsqMHu.DIy@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Aug10.045311.11217@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
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- In <1992Aug10.045311.11217@leland.Stanford.EDU> wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors) writes:
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- >In article <BsqMHu.DIy@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> gtaylor@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Gord Taylor) writes:
- >>
- >> A common cause that I've seen for problems identical to this occurs
- >>mainly with people who upgraded from a 386 to 486 and tried to 'port
- >>their 80 ns SIMMs over to a 486 (which requires at least 70 ns SIMMs)
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- >I've been running my 80ns SIMMS in my 33MHz 486 for months now, and have not
- >had any problems. I had been running windows 3.0, and now have been running
- >OS/2 for a couple of weeks. Why do you say that 80ns won't work on a 486
- >but will on a 386? I thought it was a function of the bus speed. Surely
- >80ns memory would work if I ran the motherboard at 8MHz!!
-
- The memory generally sits on a separate bus that runs at the CPU clock
- speed. Otherwise, there would be no point in having a fast processor.
-
- [The above intended to apply to 386DX and better processors.]
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