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- From: ching@angelo.amd.com (Mike Ching)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 1M SIMM and 4M SIMM
- Message-ID: <C188ru.ABB@amd.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 23:19:05 GMT
- References: <93018.221727AGCKK@ASUACAD.BITNET> <chans.727489458@marsh>
- Sender: usenet@amd.com (NetNews)
- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA
- Lines: 18
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- In article <chans.727489458@marsh> chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan) writes:
- ><AGCKK@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
- >
- >>What factors decide wheather I can use 4M SIMM or not?
- >
- >Should be specified on the motherboard manual...
- >
- >>Can I use 4M SIMM on a 386SX, 16M Hz PC ?
- >
- >What I'd like to know is that are there any motherboards that can accept
- >a bank that's half full...eg. have 2x4MB SIMMs on the first bank. Of all
-
-
- Since the original poster asked about 386SX boards, 2 SIMMs is a bank. If
- you want to run 16 bits wide, just get a 386SX. My 386SX-40 runs as fast
- as a 386DX-33 so you don't give up too much performance.
-
- Mike Ching
-