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PC3200/2700 DDR Memory
Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll) Date: March 10, 2006 at 06:13:23 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro / SP2 CPU/Ram: Pentium 4 3.2 GHz / 1 GB Product: Home made
Comment:
When memory is advertised as follows:
"512MB PC3200/2700 DDR Desktop Memory Module"
Does this mean that if the motherboard supports the PC3200 speed, it will run at that speed?
Name: Firehawk Date: March 10, 2006 at 06:23:44 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, that means the ram can run at either 400Mhz (pc3200) or 333Mhz(pc2700) depending on what the motherboard can handle and the installed cpu's frontside bus speed. For example if you have a motherboard that can support pc3200 ram, but your processor has a front side bus speed of 333Mhz, than the ram will run at pc2700, or 333Mhz. Hope that helps.
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Response Number 2
Name: jam Date: March 10, 2006 at 07:41:43 Pacific
Reply:
It doesn't depend on the CPU's FSB, it depends on the board & the BIOS setting for the RAM. If the board supports DDR400 & the memory setting is "BY SPD", the RAM will run at 200MHz regardless of what the CPU FSB is set at. If the board only supports DDR333, the RAM will run at 166MHz. However, for best performance, the RAM should be setup to run at the same speed as the FSB, regardless of what speed the RAM is rated for....
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Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll)
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