pc100 ram on DDR motherboard

[azerak]

Hi there.

Can you use older PC100 or PC133 SDRAM on newer motherboards that support DDR memory? I want to upgrade my motherboard, but I want to avoid upgrading my ram if possible.

thanks!

 

[RichPLS]

NO

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[endyen]

Sis made an Amd chipset, that allowed mobos to use either type of ram. The most common board was the ECS K7S5A. Unfortunately, newegg stopped selling it, about 4 months ago. You may still be able to find one, but it only supports Tbred chips.

 

[jammydodger]

Without upgrading your RAM or CPU how much of a performance increase do you expect?

 

[azerak]

I'm not really upgrading to gain performance. My motherboard is unstable, so it needs to be replaced, but getting a board that still supports regular SDRAM seems to be quite difficult these days.

I did a little more research and found out that the slots used for DDR RAM are physically different than PC100/133 SDRAM, so newer boards wont support it.

 

[Cybercraig]

Duh! Like he said, the K7S5A has regular SDRAM slots X 2 and 184 pin DIMM slots for DDR X 2. You can buy one off of E-Bay or do a Pricewatch search. They also have a good track record compared to a lot of ECS products.

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