First post, by Paddan1000
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There seem to be sticks of RAM around where the memory bus is halved to 4 bits instead of the regular 8 bits. The ones with less bits are called High Density RAM and are slower and inferior to the ones with more bits called Low Density RAM.
I went through my collection of SDRAM and fortunately didn't find any HD-RAM, but a couple of sticks had a memory bus of 16 bits. Are these some kind of Ultra Low Density RAM and what kind of performance gain can I expect from using them? I plan to put them in a Pentium III 500 MHz or an Imac G3 400 MHz.
If I were to use HD RAM of the worst kind, how would that affect performance in real world tasks?
Finally all of my SDRAM-sticks are either CL2 or CL3, whatever that means. Is there any benefit to use only the CL2 ones?
The perfect stick of SDRAM would be a PC-133, 512 MB with a 16 bit memory bus and CL2. Do that type of DIMM exist and is it readily available and affordable?