Just a quick question about RAM

Your FSP is 133 Mhz. This is than translated to the RAM bus frequency. Therefore you can use 66-133 sticks

Some motherboards (mine for example: ASUS P3V4X) allow to change the RAM frequeny. This allow to adjust the RAm bus idependet from the CPU bus. So I could use a 100 Mhz (w/o multiplier) CPU and 133 Mhz RAMs

You could also run 133 Mhz sticks in a 100 Mhz mobo. But they will get hotter than usual

The one thing RAM wise that'll improve your speed is CAS latency on that setup, and it depends on whether the BIOS will let you set it or not.

CAS latency basically is, how many frequency cycles does it take for your RAM to transmit data. There are two grades, 2 and 3. 2 is obviously better, but you need to be able to specify 2 in your BIOS for it to work. You can't use two different speeds, so if you wanna run CAS2 then all of your memory sticks must be able to handle it.

If you can set those options in your BIOS, see if the RAM that came from Gateway can handle CAS2. If it can, get CAS2 RAM for your other 128 megs and you'll get a noticeable increase in performance.

Xayd

CAS Latency

01/29/2001

What is the difference between CAS Latency 2 and CAS Latency 3? How would you determine which setting is in effect currently? Thanks.

Any advice is appreciated.

Get this

http://www.tweakfiles.com/allinone/sisoftsandra.html

It will give yoy all the info you need about your system.

CAS2 is faster than CAS3 you can find out in your bios which you are using.