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Greetings!!

I'm about to upgrade my motherboard from a P75 to a PPro200,
and would like to upgrade the memory at the same time.

My P75 motherboard has 32Mb or memory: 2 x 16Mb 60ns non-EDO SIMMS.
I'd like my new system to have 64Mb in total.

My question is, should I:
   (a) buy 64Mb of EDO SIMMS for the PPro motherboard.
   (b) buy 32Mb of EDO SIMMS and also use the old SIMMS.

The only disadvantage I see to (a) is cost :-)
The main disadvantage to (b) is a (likely) performance hit.
Plus I paid an aweful lot of money for those 2x16Mb non-EDO SIMMS
in April 1995 :-) :-)

I suppose another concern is whether a PPro motherboard will
support a mix of EDO and non-EDO memory.  I've only looked into
the ASUS PPro boards so far, and their tech support claims that
they'll support 2x16Mb non-EDO and 2x16Mb EDO on the same board.

FWIW, I'm running Windows NTWS 4.0 and Linux 2.0.27

Any comments/suggestions/opinions are greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
-- Sean.

Asus is correct in that the board will _support_ both EDO and FPM SIMMS,
but the performance will suffer. In a memory-intensive OS, the memory
timings should really be the same across the board (pun intended, maybe
a bit weak). We would suggest that the cost may be the lesser of two
evils.

Donovan Ready,
Lindsay Computer Systems
http://www.jumpnet.com/~lcs