PC66

[daveleau]

Hi everybody!
My girlfriend has a system with a PII 266 and I want to give her a little boost since I have a BF6 laying around so I got her a Celeron 566. I was thinking of doing alight overclock but was curious about the generic PC66 she has in her system... How much is that going to hold me back? I want to ramp the fsb up to around 90MHz. What are your experiences with PC66? I don't want to spend more money, so getting PC100 is out for now.
Thanks
Dave

[derek79602]

Funny you should ask. I just got done upgrading my dad's p233mmx to a 700 Duron. He had 2 32 meg pc66 chips. I went and bought him a 64 meg stck of pc100 and then stuck one of the pc66 sticks in just for fun. They co-habitate rather well. Two dimm slots is all he has, so he has one 64meg pc100 and one 32 meg pc66. I confiscated his extra 32meg pc66 and stuck it in my classic athlon machine, and it works there too. I actually had all my pc100 clocked at 133, but the pc66 froze it up after 5 minutes or so. I backed the whole thing down to 100 and it's stable as could be. Of course I haven't done any gaming since then, but no trouble yet.

[big_block_buick]

as well i have my 66mhz clocked at 95fsb.it wont boot at 100.

[krusty the klown]

I've clocked generic PC66 at 100MHz/CAS3 Absolutely no probs with 2*64MB sticks.

There really isn't a huge performance hit from running CAS3 vs. CAS2 and doing so lets you run the memory much faster (MHz).

[radman3d2]

Check this site out and see if your ram is listed as being tested. http://bxboards.com/sdram.shtml It has helped me out a few times.

[daveleau]

Thansk guys, you rock
Dave

[derek79602]

No Dave, YOU ROCK!!!

[This message has been edited by derek79602 (edited 02-21-2001).]