memory

[Badbry]

I Have An Athlon 650,DFi AK70 M.B.,And A 128 Meg DIMM.My Question Is What Do I Set My Memory At In The Bios? 2-2-2-2? Or 2-2-3-2?Or What?


Thanks,
Bryan

[This message has been edited by Badbry (edited 11-08-2000).]

[OuTpaTienT]

If I'm correct, those options represent wait-states. A wait-state is just what it sounds like, time spent waiting when it could be doing something.

So, the less wait-states the better. In your case, 2-2-2-2 would be slightly faster than 2-2-3-2.

But sometimes wait-states are necessary. Imagine them as a traffic light allowing vehicles onto a freeway. If you have a bunch of various cars on the freeway moving at fairly high speed, and a bunch of Lamborghinis hauling **** up the onramp to merger. Lamborghinis are now over 200mph top speed, so obviously we can't allow them to just merge unencumbered. The traffic metering light (ie "wait-state") pauses the Lambos and makes them merge in an ordering fashion. And in the end, both in the analogy and the computer, there will hopefully be no crashes.

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