Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Motherboards

Woodstock (woody@woodynet.siscom.net)
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 07:27:57 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Jeffrey B. Siegal wrote:

> My ABIT IT5H officially supports SIMMs and 3.3V EDO DIMMs simultaneously (and
> I am currently using both, which works fine). It uses the Intel HX chipset.
>
> Is this really so unusual?

Not so unusual. A lot of MB makers WILL hack these two together. But to
WHAT POINT!? mixing 60 ns simms and 10ns DIMMS!??! Why BOTHER buying
DIMMS? they'll slow down to SIMM speed!

-Sir Woody Hackswell balint@udayton.edu woody@woodynet.siscom.net
(The ArchFool) http://homepages.udayton.edu/~balintrc
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