X-RebelTech Is Here: http://www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit it would likely vary per the motherboard. most motherboards that i have used or seen don't even allow mixing of the two types. they have had a jumper to select one or the other. maybe do a search at the motherboard homeworld (motherboards.org) to see if anyone can answer it. on the other hand, if you have 72 pin ram handy, stuff it in and see for yourself... what kind of machine is it? cpu? goodluck. moose. On Tuesday 11 September 2001 08:49, you wrote: > My motherboard is currently holding the maximum amount of SDRAM (the 168 > pin stuff, in case I've got the wrong acronym) that it can (128 MB in > two sockets, each of which can only handle 64 MB). There are sockets on > board such that I could add some of the older (72 pin?) RAM, maybe as > much as another 64 MB. > > I've assumed that doing so will make all the RAM as slow as the old 72 > pin stuff, and thus is probably not worth trying (although I do have > some 16 MB strips around). Anybody know for sure what would happen? > > Aside: the manual for the motherboard says mixing the two types of RAM > is possible (as long as I don't populate the first slots for both types) > but not recommended. > > Thanks, > Randy Kramer ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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