KungKras said:
Bofferbrauer said:
EDO RAM is an evolution of FPM, similar to DDR and DDR2. It got called colloquially HPM for Hyper Page Mode due to this for a short while.
All Pentium Boards apparently can use FPM, and apart from the 430NX (well, and the 430LX, but that one couldn't handle the processor, either) all can handle EDO RAM too. I don't know if the physical connectors are any different. If they don't, then you shouldn't have any problem with the RAM you bought, and FPM is just slighly slower than EDO.
While we're at it, all Pentium boards can support at least 128MB of RAM. It would have made no sense to go any lower since all 486 Boards already could use 128MB RAM. My Am486 DX40 has 96MB of RAM - which admittedly is absolute overkill - and shipped with 16MB in 1993.
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Awesome! Thanks a bunch for the info!
Even if FPM might be a bit slower, I hope having 64MB of them will do the trick for my computer :)
Now I'll just need to try and remove the old ones withhout everything breaking. Those tiny little metal things confuse me a bit.
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I wish I could help you on that, but I didn't upgrade my 486 myself back then (also uses FPM RAM), so I don't know what's the trick here.
