Paul Jones wrote:
> Hello listers,
>
> A student of mine has been told that if he wants to put an AMD K6-2/350 on
> a FIC VA-503+ MB, he can't use his old EDO memory because of the 100MHz
> front side bus.
>
> Is this true? I had never heard of such, and know that there are jumpers
> for setting SDRAM speed lower when using higher front side bus settings. I
> can find no documentation regarding high processor speeds and SIMMs.
>
> Any confirmation/denial would be welcomed.
Not so, I've run a 100MHz FSB with Micron 60ns EDO SIMMs on my kid's 503. I
even set the speed for SDRAM and it worked. I guess it depends on the quality
of the SIMMs but there's a setting for EDO anyway.
Jose
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