Hi.

Real PC100 memory dimms, apart from fulfiling specs about
eeprom, damping serial resistors, layers, traces, the chips
themselves, etc, seem to have to have somewhere a legend as
"PC100-XXX-YYY", where X and Y are digits specifying clearly
chips electronic parameters and the eeprom data version.

Well, it happens that all dimms said to be PC100 I've seen
here in Spain, visually seem to accomplish those specs, but
lack the legend, even if having brand well known chips from
Micron, Siemens or Hyundai, with 8-10 ns access times.
Perhaps they have a paper label with "PC100" on it, but
everybody can make that paper label. They work, but I
observe problems when overclocking.

I'll appreciate if someone reading this can describe his
PC100 dimms, specially if they have that legend on the
copper traces or on the PCB labelling (not on a paper
label).
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