[ale] memory upgrade

[NEWCOMBE at aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Daniel Newcombe)]

>     I'm thinking about upgrade the RAM on my box. The 8 meg I have now might
> be 70ns, since now 60ns one are almost as the same price of 70ns', I'd 
> like to know if I could mix 60ns and 70ns RAMs? Or I should discard 70ns 
> one and use the faster one only?

It really all depends.  If your motherboard can handle multiple speed 
SIMM's then it will probably operate at the speed of the lower speed 
one (70ns)  If it can't, it'll probably be flaky.  Most modern 
BIOS's have a setting for memory speed.  It's usually easy to keep 
increasing that until you get to a point where the system starts 
acting flakey, then back it off by one.

Again,  it all depends on your motherboard - my 386 doesn't, my 486 
does.

  -Dan

Dan Newcombe
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