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Old RAM questions from a 'puter dummy
I have an old PC I'm tinkerin with for the garage and I have a couple questions about RAM.
It has an SIS741GX chipset with an AMD 1800 CPU. I also have a spare 2300 AMD CPU. It says it supports "DDR 333/266 SDRAM, 2 slots up to 1gb each (2 gb total). It currenty has one stick of 1gb 266 PC 2100 ram in it now and I'm looking to increase it to the max. of 2 gb. Question time: Is 266 and 333 ram interchangeable? Can you mix one slot of 266 with one of 333? Will upgrading both to 333 make it any faster? And what's the deal with server vs. PC RAM? I don't want to buy something that won't work or won't help. Tanks in advance. |
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07-05-2010, 11:39 AM
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You can mix, but it will default to the slowest memory speed. Hopefully someone here has a couple of spare sticks they can give you. What OS will you be running. On such an old pc, think about getting a newish cheap 100gb hard drive.
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07-05-2010, 11:45 AM
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I found some RAM on evil-bay for a decent prince (I think) which just led to another question: What's the diff between high density and low density RAM? |
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07-05-2010, 11:53 AM
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Sammy,
Go to a local Fry's electronics or look around. Just saw a 1 TERRAbyte hard drive for less than $100. Not only is it massive, the search time is way faster than what you have now and will help speed up the entire computer. Joe A
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07-05-2010, 01:27 PM
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Mix n match may depend on your logic board and or bios
Forget eBay, check newegg or memoryx.com Don't mess with mixed RAM, sometimes its a non issue sometimes it's nothing but trouble |
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07-05-2010, 01:33 PM
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