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Old 02-23-2005, 12:40 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I have a quick question. I have a new Dell 8400 with the HT Pentium 3600, 1 gig of PC4200 DDR2 533mhz ram, and a PCI express Geforce 6800 GT. I was just wondering if my motherboard can support PC4300? Thanks in advance!!
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Old 02-23-2005, 01:12 AM   #2 (permalink)
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they are both ~DDR533 so I don't see why not
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Yeah, I wouldn't understand why it wouldn't run it either. However, I didn't just want to run out half cocked, buy some ram I can't use, and waste the money.

Any other advice?
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itll downclock to your pc4200 speeds
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itll downclock to your pc4200 speeds
only if the two are mixed but pc4200 is ~ddr525 and pc4300 is ~ddr538 so there's not much gain/loss
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