Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Motherboards
chedlin@rodent.stac.org
02 Feb 1998 12:10:48 -0600
> > 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.
>
> It was under MY impression that running both SIMMs and DIMMs concurrently
> was a BAD thing. And any motherboard that actually DOES support the both
> is a horrible hack that will lack in system performance. And your friend
> is correct, ASUS won't do both, for this exact reason.
This would be the case if your dimms were sdram and your simms were edo,
although as long as both were EDO, this wouldn't be a bad hack at all.
And since 5v EDO dimms, while not a current item, did exist at one time, you
could probally get away with it.
Actually, as far as getting away with it, I am probally wrong, because the
key is slightly offset on 5v dimms, and they don't fit in the same slots.