Unorthodox Memory Question
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Original Message
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Name: anoymus
Date: May 23, 2005 at 18:42:49 Pacific
Subject: Unorthodox Memory QuestionOS: Windows XPCPU/Ram: 2.2Ghz/2Gb RAM |
Comment: Hello I'm just wondering about RAM compatiblity in all and i have a question involving would it work to have 2x512MB DDR400 3200 NON-ECC 187 PIN SDRAM DIMM memory tossed in along with another 2x512Mb DDR266 184-pin PC2100 SDRAM DIMM. When my Motherboard says it can support 4 RAM slots with DDR400/266 but the question remains. OR if it will have any Problems what so ever MotherBoard INFO http://www.btecanada.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=66_121_145&products_id=2470 Model Sony Vaio PCV RX650 Board 845 Intel CPU P4 1.6 Ghz RAM 2x512mb PC2100 DDR 187PIN DIMM SDRAM NON-ECC Graphics Adapter ATI 9800 256 Mb DDR SDRAM AGP 4X Perament memory ATA/100 8
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Response Number 1
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Name: jam
Date: May 23, 2005 at 19:10:12 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I don't think you have 187-pin RAM As long as it's not a problem for you that all 4 sticks of RAM will have to run as PC2100 @ 133MHz, I guess you're OK. You may not be able to run in dual channel mode either...you won't know til you try Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @ 8.5 x 200MHz 768MB PC3200 Asus A9550 128MB/128-bit Gamer Edition WinME/WinXP Pro
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Response Number 2
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Reply: (edit)http://www.asuscom.de/pub/ASUS/mb/socket939/A8V-E_Deluxe/e1781_a8v-e_deluxe.pdf see page 35 - 36 Manual recommends DDR400 only. Whether you would get away with it I don't know. Do you really need 2GB. For 'normal' computing you would be loosing performance.
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Response Number 3
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Name: anoymus
Date: May 23, 2005 at 19:56:29 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)WOOPS TYPO it's 184 pin sorry im going to wait for my pretty 40 pound box to come =) Model Sony Vaio PCV RX650 Board 845 Intel CPU P4 1.6 Ghz RAM 2x512mb PC2100 DDR 187PIN DIMM SDRAM NON-ECC Graphics Adapter ATI 9800 256 Mb DDR SDRAM AGP 4X Perament memory ATA/100 8
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Response Number 4
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Name: Rimfire
Date: May 24, 2005 at 02:17:25 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Yes, it normally is possible to run different speed ram at the same time. The downside is that all of the ram will run at the speed of the slowest module. I doubt that the extra ram would improve the system speed more than the slower speed will hobble it.
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