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dram frequency
Name: guycool Date: April 26, 2006 at 14:07:21 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: p4 2.4 Product: Acer
Comment:
hey guys i went in to bios dram frquency giving me 3 option to choose 266mhz 333mhz and 400mhz which one should i select? my cpu is p4 2.4 ghz northwood a ddr ram 256mb pc2100
Name: mjohn911 Date: April 26, 2006 at 14:15:36 Pacific
Reply:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR_SDRAM That should explain some.
Also, What was the default setting? You could trial/error with some risk. Start with 266, if it works, try 333 for a minute or two. Feel the memory chips to see if gets hot real fast, and if it does, shut off the pc and put it back. I can't say a whole lot because I can't work with it directly.
"if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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Response Number 2
Name: street1 Date: April 26, 2006 at 14:41:11 Pacific
Summary: the path between then cpu and the memory controller (which is built into the northbridge chip on the motherboard) is called the fsb. The path between the memory controller and memory is called the mem...
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