02-04-2005, 11:50 AM
nobbie,Feb 4 2005, 03:56 AM Wrote:That's interesting. So, although I have a 2Ghz Pentium 4, which allows just up to 266 Mhz RAM through the BIOS settings (100 MHz FSB x 2.66), I can put 333 or 400 Mhz RAM chips into that slots provided I buy all new 333 or 400 MHz RAM (1x 1024 MB or 2x 512 MB)?
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No, PC3200 and PC2700 (DDR400 and DDR333 respectively) is fully backwards compatible with PC2100 (DDR266) All you have to do is buy 512 MB of PC3200 and you're set for now and you have 512 MB for an upgrade. It will work fine with your existing PC2100.
Any PC2100 sold now is just de-rated PC2700 anyway. In fact, I have 2 sticks of PC2700 that were apparently de-rated PC3200 and run fine at 200 MHz.
Also, your FSB is 133 MHz, CPU speed is 133 x 15 = 2000 MHz
Everything is DDR, so "effective speed" is always what is quoted, even though the actual speed is half that.
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Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.