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will Pentium 3 run on a DDR2 RAM?
Name: Fullmetal Date: March 15, 2008 at 03:17:03 Pacific OS: Windows XP / Ubuntu CPU/Ram: 1024MB Product: Intel Dual Core
Comment:
I have a an old spare pc (Pentium 3) in my house and a spare 512MB DDR2 RAM, and I was wondering if I could use DDR2 on that old pc. I didn't experiment because I didn't want to harm my RAM.Any help is welcome.
Name: jam Date: March 15, 2008 at 06:07:16 Pacific
Reply:
I highly doubt any P3 boards were made that will accept 240-pin DDR2 RAM...
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Response Number 2
Name: jackbomb Date: March 15, 2008 at 12:22:30 Pacific
Reply:
Most P3 boards used PC133 SDRAM. Intel offered a few RDRAM-based P3 chipsets, and VIA made a screaming fast, Tualatin-optimized DDR(1) chipset. Unfortunately, as jam mentioned, no DDR2-compatible P3 chipsets were ever created.
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