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From: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Memory speeds
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.025421.11005@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 02:54:21 GMT
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Reply-To: ebergman@isis.UUCP (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver
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Be careful not to waste your money buying memory that's faster than your
CPU.  Get memory fast enough to make your computer have zero wait states.
Buying memory faster than that will NOT make your system run faster.

However, if you're planning on upgrading to a faster machine in the future,
you might want to plan ahead and get fast enough memory (but the RAM
prices tend to decrease anyway).


Sorry I can't give you the exact speed of memory that your system needs
to be zero wait state.  I have 80ns memory in my 16MHz 386SX and I believe
that the machine doesn't have a wait state...


Terrell