Re: DDR Ram

Palindr?me wrote:
Lee Gardner wrote:
I am after some DDR ram, have looked at mine and it is 333mhz ddr
ram, however i wanted to know whether my pc would take 400mhz ddr
ram. I have looked in the bios but could not ind anything.

Any ideas. I could try it out but wouldn't want to frazzle my
motherboard


I have never come across a mobo damaged by fitting faster memory. Even
when BIOS parameters have been manually set.

Whether the mobo could actually make use of the added performance
capability is a different matter. But, AFAIK, it wouldn't do any
damage to the mobo to try.

Oh, if you try to run memory at *faster* than its specification, you
can hit problems and disasters. But not running it a bit slower or at
its rated clock rates.

Anyone had any experiences otherwise?

DDR400 is backward compatible with DDR333 so if he puts DDR400 stick in his
PC it will run on the 166fsb/333DDR so unless he can run his fsb at 200 he
won't see the benefit of DDR400 except it may be cheaper then a DDR333 stick
now. Some DDR266 Memory will run at DDR333 but also I have a PC100 stick
that won't run at PC133 without errors that show up in Prime95 pretty
quickly. I dunno if DDR is better able to run at higher then rated speeds
then SDRAM or whether it varies between manufacturer / specs.

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