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Easy RAM ?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 12:46 pm
by smack323
if a mother board supports DDR2 667/533/400 DDR2 SDRAM will I be able to use DDR2 800 RAM - will it just run at the 667 speed?
Re: Easy RAM ?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:46 pm
by dicecca112
You are almost correct, it will run at the speed of the FSB of the processor, unless your overclocking. The bios will only be able to automatically set the memory for those speeds supported, it may not do it correctly for higher rated ram, and you may have to set it yourself
Re: Easy RAM ?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 2:44 pm
by martini161
unless your talking about an nvidia mobo

Re: Easy RAM ?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:22 pm
by Sparky
So it should fit fine in the slots? I've tried last week to drop some PC6400 in my old MSI K8N-Neo Platinum to aid my OC I couldn't get it to seat properly. Held each stick up side by side and it appeared longer. Maybe I'm imagining things.
Re: Easy RAM ?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:24 pm
by martini161
if you have two objects on top of each other, the one on the bottomwill always look biger
Re: Easy RAM ?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:26 pm
by Sparky
I must be lame. I was kind of frazzled at the time trying to get an old PC back on track for my daughter to use this last weekend. I'll try it again later. Thanks.
Re: Easy RAM ?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:32 pm
by DMB2000uk
Hold up
There is a reason it didn't look like it would fit! You are trying to put DDR2 RAM into a DDR motherboard
Dan
Re: Easy RAM ?
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:43 pm
by Sparky
DMB2000uk wrote:Hold up
There is a reason it didn't look like it would fit! You are trying to put DDR2 RAM into a DDR motherboard
Dan
Yep, I just went to the MSI website and like I said before.....I'm lame!
Re: Easy RAM ?
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:33 am
by smack323
ok - i guess i'll just slap it all together and hope for the best
ECS 945GCT-M 1066Mhz DDR2 LGA 775 Intel motherboard
Intel Pentium4 HT 3.06G / 1M / 533 / 775 (P4-519J)
G.SKILL
Model F2-6400CL5D-2GBNQ
Type 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM
Tech Spec
Capacity 1GB
Speed DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Cas Latency 5
Timing 5-5-5-15
Voltage 1.8V - 2.0V
Buffered/Registered Unbuffered