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PC133 backwards compatible w/ PC100?
Name: micky Date: March 13, 2002 at 22:34:25 Pacific
Comment:
I have a laptop that runs off a 100mhz bus and I want to buy a 256mb stick for it on Ebay but the seller doesn't say whether it's PC100 or PC133 and the auction ends early in the morning, don't have the chance to question him. I know that sometimes PC133 is backwards compat. with PC100 but is it always?
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