Re: mix and match memory

Well normally DDR 400 is faster memory but if you do mix memory all sticks
will downclock to the slowest speed installed. ie - the DDR400 stick will
downclock to DDR333 as the other ram is DDR333. Optimally it would be
fastest to have all ram DDR400 though upping to a full gigabyte of DDR333
will be fine for now I'm sure :)

On 12/29/06, Eve Kotyk <e.kotyk@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> It's been a while since I've messed with my computer innards, so maybe
> someone can help me out.
>
> My system has an ASROCK K7S8XE+ board and I currently have 768 megs RAM.
> It originally had 256 MB DDR 333 PC2700. I subsequently added 512
> (haven't taken it apart and I don't remember what). I know have an
> additional 256 MB DDR 400 PC3200 available to me. My manual says the
> following:
>
> *Memory* 3 x DDR DIMMs, *DDR400*/333/266
> DDR 266 Max. 3GB
> DDR 333 Max. 2GB
> DDR 400 Max. 1GB
>
> To me it looks as though I have three slots and I could use DDR 266, 333
> or 400.
>
> Now finally here is my question: Can I mix and match memory speed? What
> is the difference between PC2700 and PC3200?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Eve
>
>
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Received on Fri Dec 29 19:52:44 2006