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A folding lappy memory divider question...

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I just upgraded my dell 5100 from 256 to 512. It had pc2100 in before that ran a 1:1 ratio. The new ram was basically free and is pc2700 out of a dead 5150. Now cpu-z tells me that its running at 166mgz on a 4:5 ratio! The worst problem is that its a dell and has zero bios options for changing that sort of thing. Now who thinks it would be faster to run 4:5 with more bandwidth or 1:1 with less bandwidth. I'm leaning toward 1:1 being faster, anyone have a tool to set it to 1:1 in windows?

 
Do you mean 5:4? In any case, my guess is it'll be faster running with 512 mb, regardless of speed.

 
unhappy_mage said:
Do you mean 5:4? In any case, my guess is it'll be faster running with 512 mb, regardless of speed.

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Well yeah I'm definitely sticking with the 512 regardless. The cpu is running 133mhz while the ram is running 166. So it really is running 4:5 instead of 5:4. I double checked cpu-z this morning.
 
Well, in any case, if it's a P4, more bandwidth is better. I wouldn't worry about it, since it will make a minimal difference anyways though.
 
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