> >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.
>
my 100MHZ mother board runs SIMMs just fine. i have a k6-2-350. the FSB is
set to 100 mhz. the SIMMs runs @66MHZno mater how fast the bus  is running
(according to the manual) . i
upgraded my RAM to 64MBDIMMs and the performance increased around %6.

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