[nylug-talk] Any way to tell memory speed from command line?

[alex@pilosoft.com]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> The machine is a (pretty old) Intel P4, with a 400MHz FSB.  So
> apparently, PC3200 should be OK with it.
no, pc1600 should be ok with it
> 
> Nevertheless, I think it may have shipped with PC2100.  (Though I won't 
> be able to verify this till tonight.)
yes, it'd probably ship with pc2100.

> And I seem to remember that up until recently both Dell and Crucial -
> for whatever reason - were only recommending max PC2700 with it.  (Who
> knows why?  Wacky proprietary Dell stuff maybe?)
why pay for pc3200 if you only have to have pc1600?

laex