Re: Looking for RAM again :)

Conrad Knauer wrote:
> Yesterday I got an AMD K6-2 IBM Aptiva system (circa Y2K) from
> Freecycle and I'd like to max out the RAM (right now it has 64 MB,
> including what it shares with the onboard video) to the dizzying
> heights of 256 MB ;)
>
Do you know what chipset it has? If memory serves, (pun intended) some
of the chipsets from that era had a strange "feature" in that only the
first 64MB (or was it 128MB) of RAM were cached. In some cases, adding
RAM would actually slow the computer down. I'm pretty sure that was one
of the intel chipsets. If you have an ALI chipset, you're probably OK.
Can't speak for the VIA chipsets, other than I will never, ever in my
life buy another computer with a VIA chipset.

> "168-pin Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM) [...] PC-100
> (64-bit, non-ECC, 100MHz, 3.3volt)"

Those are tough to come by. PC-133 are easy to find, but will likely
not work.

ttyl
srw
Received on Thu May 10 16:43:07 2007