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Anthony Horan wrote:
> 
> In <4u1lo4$3hh@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> 73773.1474@compuserve.com
> (Tom McIntire) wrote:
> 
> >>> Also, what is the consequence of having mismatched ram.  Will the
> >>> machine still work?  What if my old ram is 70ns and I install a
> >>> further 16MBs which has faster or slower specs?
> >..............
> >
> >On my particular machine, if I mix 60ns and 70ns RAM, I do see a
> >significant slowdown under Windows 95.
> 
> Here's something interesting; I just added another 16Mb of RAM to my
> P75/Win95 system, which had 16Mb already installed as four 4Mb 70ns SIMMs.
> 
> The dealer I bought the RAM from sold me EDO RAM, despite me asking for
> NON-EDO RAM. What the heck, I thought, I'll give it a try, and if it doesn't
> work, I'll rip it out and return it. Well, it seems to work fine - and I get
> a performance increase in Norton Utilities' benchamark, from 13.5 to 15.8.
> Strange.
> 
> 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?
> 
> - Anthony

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>       Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia  -  anthony@xymox.apana.org.au
>                      http://daemon.apana.org.au/~anthony/
>        Physical mail: P.O. Box 40, Malvern 3144, Victoria, Australia

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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