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Alan R. Miller <armiller@nmt.edu> wrote in article
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> > The fact that it's EDO RAM doesn't *seem* to bother my non-Triton
machine
> > (it's an Octek Bison VI motherboard), but is there anything I should be
wary
> > of in this situation? Should I be returning the chips for non-EDO ones
> > anyway?
>>	<snip>
>
> My Dell Dimension P100t has four memory slots in two banks. Either bank
> can have either EDO or non EDO according to the manual. That is, one bank
> can have two EDO and the other can have two non EDO.
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> Alan R. Miller, Prof. of Metallurgy             505-835-5619
> New Mexico Tech                             armiller@nmt.edu
> Socorro NM  87801              http://www.nmt.edu/~armiller/
> 

Some motherboards will support a combination of both EDO and normal RAM,
some won't. So check your motherboard manual instead of assuming and buying
the wrong thing.

The only rule for motherboards that do accept combinations is that the RAM
must be put in in pairs (for example, 2 EDO SIMMS in bank 0, 2 standard
SIMMS in bank 1). I have heard that putting the faster EDO RAM in bank 0
will provide slightly better performance, too.


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