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RAM mixing
Name: kwonpan (by Kwonpan) Date: August 7, 2005 at 23:26:36 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home Edition CPU/Ram: Pentium 4/ 511 mb
Comment:
Can you have different speeds of memory on your motherboard and have it work? Example: PC2100 with a PC2700. or PC2100 and PC3200.
Dell Dimension 4500 Pentium 4, 2.0 GHz Windows XP Home, SP1 512 mb PC2700 nVidia Geforce MX 420 64 Mb 80Gb Hard Drive 24x4x48x CD-RW 8x DVD-ROM
Name: ic3d3m0n Date: August 8, 2005 at 00:06:30 Pacific
Reply:
well to my knowledge you cant,motherboards only support a certain speed of ram. mixing the ram speeds(if you can) would probably result in poor performance.
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Response Number 2
Name: tambes Date: August 8, 2005 at 03:28:09 Pacific
Reply:
I have used mixed rams in the past without problem.But be aware they will only work to the speed of the slowest rated . e.g mixing pc2100 and pc2700 will mean the pc2700 will work as pc2100.
Having said that some motheboards are choosy about which rams can be used
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Response Number 3
Name: jam Date: August 8, 2005 at 05:58:00 Pacific
Reply:
The higher rated RAM will automatically be dragged down to the level of the lower rated RAM
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