How to tell if it's PC66 or PC100?

[FlameOut]

A friend of mine just went to Best Buy to get 1-32 meg SDRAM PC100, but when he got home, he found it was actually a 128 meg sdram (why can't I have that kind of luck!!!) But now he isn't sure if it's the 66 or 100 (I offered to trade him a 32 -100 for it).

Is there some kind of marking he can look for?

[GB]

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[socalgal]

There should be a sticker right on the chip.

PC100 XXX XXX for PC100

Or you could check out these links for more info:
www.bxboards.com/sdram.shtml (http://www.bxboards.com/sdram.shtml)

http://www.pc100.com/

There's also a small utility called DIMM ID that you can use to identify PC100 spec, I don't have the link, but will email it you if you want it.

[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 08-03-99).]

[FlameOut]

Thanks for the replies. That utility pgm won't be necessary tho. I'm sure he can figure it out on his own http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[AuraEdge]

Ive got a stranger reverse messed up luck story. Well I went out to a comp show, and got a stick of what i thought was 64mb PC100
It had a sticker on it (no doubt supplyed by the seller) saying 64MB PC100 DIMM on it. I brought it home and chugged it though sandra and it tells me its PC66. So im like "HEY I GOT JIPPED!!" Course i didnt keep the reciept since it worked ok. So..after misses and trials of overclocking I actually got this PC66 on a 133 FSB machine working. Im not sure whether i got ripped off or not...I frankly dont care right now http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

BTW I didnt see any "66" anywhere on the DIMM, which i thought would have been on it. I also have a true PC100 and on it are the numbers "00" in one of the spec numbers

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