Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Motherboards

Simon's Mailing List Account (slk@shodor.org)
Sun, 1 Feb 1998 17:53:03 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Ville =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E4tsi ?= wrote:

> A friend who works in a h/w store said that asus wont accept dimm&simm
> at the same time.
> The motherboards he had tested he said that msi was the best currently
> on the market.

Asus unofficially says that DIMM and SIMM work together just fine
as long as your DIMMs are 5V tolerant, but wont' officially say it
because they don't want to be responsible for ruining non-5V-tolerant
DIMMs.

Simon Karpen slk@shodor.org
Sysadmin, Shodor Education Foundation

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