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LastMastr
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_ 		22. July 2007 @ 18:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey you guys...

Heres a question.

I have a old motherboard that a freind is giving me, and it has a 1.6ghz proccessor. It should be using pc400 ram. But if i use pc100 ram, even if its like 512mbs or more, does it make the cpu drop in proccessing speed?
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ddp
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_ 		22. July 2007 @ 19:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
what ram is that as pc400 i think is rambus & pc100 is sdram which are 2 different types of ram? pc400 won't fit into pc100 ram slots or vice versa. same goes for pc2100 ram & up.
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LastMastr
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_ 		22. July 2007 @ 19:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well.. the guy whos giving it too me says its compatible with both pc100 and pc400...

And i willhavelike about 3 256 sticks of pc100...

But will the the proccing speed go down from 1.6 to... 1.2 for example if it runs slower memory.. even if in large quantites.
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ddp
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_ 		22. July 2007 @ 19:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
cpu speed won't change. that board must have 2 different types of ram sockets to handle pc100 sdram & pc400 rambus. if the board has 2 different ram slots then most likely can handle only 2 sticks of ram of 1 type at 1 time.
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LastMastr
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_ 		22. July 2007 @ 19:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Probably.. it only has a amd at 1.6ghz though, so maybe its only compattible with one.. lol thanks for the headsup though :D
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ddp
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_ 		22. July 2007 @ 20:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
no problem, teach & learn
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_ 		23. July 2007 @ 00:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I didn't think AMDs were compatible with Rambus?
Was he talking about DDR RAM PC2100 (266mhz) and PC3200 (400mhz) ?
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ddp
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_ 		23. July 2007 @ 08:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
don't know because if that is the case were does the pc100 ram comes into play as that is sdram not ddr.
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_ 		23. July 2007 @ 08:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That's true, I was thinking that a 1.6Ghz AMD might be of the DDR generation. Wasn't it PC133 by that time?
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ddp
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_ 		23. July 2007 @ 08:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yes but have worked on boards that can use 2 different types of ram as in sdram & ddr or ddr & ddr2 but can only use 1 type at a time.
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LastMastr
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_ 		23. July 2007 @ 21:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Turns out the board my freind is sending me has 4 dimm slots..

2 of which are for pc133 or pc100... and 2 of which are for pc400 :D

Thanks agian for the help.
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_ 		24. July 2007 @ 00:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If you already have some standard SDRAM going about use that, if not, I recommend going with the PC400 slots in stead.
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