-ROb
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Antonio Dell'elce wrote:
> Robert Hagopian wrote:
>
> > Antonio Dell'elce wrote:
> >
> > > >What PPro/P-II MB supports DIMMs? All the new ones are Natoma
> > > >chipset which only supports FPM/EDO/BEDO SIMMs...just from the spec
> >
> > > >sheets I've seen. There are a couple of P-II chipsets coming out
> >
> > > >soon that'll probably support SDRAM's, etc. (GX, LX)
> > >
> > > > Where the heck does one get BEDO anyway? I cant find the stuff
> > > > anywhere.
> > >
> > > Think twice before buying BEDO.... and go to
> > > http://sysdoc.pair.com/ram.html ...
> > > It may help..
> >
> > Sysdoc says that BEDO is the fastest thing except for SDRAM. As you'll
> >
> > see right above, there are no PPro/PII chipsets that support SDRAM. So
> >
> > if I have a Dual PPro (Titan Pro) or PII (Tahoe-2), why would I think
> > twice about BEDO (if I could find it- It seems that BEDO has been
> > mostly
> > bypassed since the Pentium chipsets now support SDRAM)?
> >
> > -Rob H
>
> It says, at a certain point:
>
> The main downside of the really fast BEDO RAM seems also to be the
> incapability to cope with bus speeds faster than 66 MHz.
>
> This is a good thing not use BEDO, other its difficulty to be found...
> (and probably its price would be
> an issue..)
>
>
>
> --
> Antonio Dell'elce -- also at uh886@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
>
>