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democracyindanger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 02:49 PM
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RAM question
What would happen if I used PC2700 in one slot and PC3200 in another? Bad things? And what does the PC2700/3200/etc. refer to, exactly?
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 07:04 PM
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1. I think the system
would run at the slower speed. PC 2700, and PC 3200 are the frontside bus speed x 8 (PC 2700=333 Mhz FSB, PC3200=400Mhz FSB)
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RoyGBiv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 09:53 PM
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2. Nothing bad ...

Unless you try to run the FSB over 333(166)MHz, you'll be fine. The difference is that the 3200 stick is rated to run at a higher FSB speed of 400(200)MHz.
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democracyindanger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 12:47 AM
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3. Thanks guys. nt
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 09:05 AM
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4. Probably nothing bad
but I've had some boards that wouldn't work at all with mismatched speeds.
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 05:54 PM
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5. NForce II Mobo's...
have trouble running in dual-channel mode with mis-matched DIMMs. If you are not using an NF2 board, like another poster said, the system will run all DIMMs at the speed of the slowest one.

Jay
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