asrock m266a motherboard - QUESTION

Hyper_Kagome

Hyper_Kagome

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Well, I'm trying to sell my RAM for $30, and I have them on here and on Kijiji.ca.

I was e-mailed today asking my my RAM (DDR 400, 512 MB, 184 Pinn)
>Pictures.<
Would work with his motherboard?

will these work in my asrock m266a motherboard? quite interested...
 
PC2700 DDR333 memory might backclock to 266mhz and work while DDR400 is two memory speeds faster. Contrary to "popular belief" as it would go not all faster memory is able to simply backclock that far in order to work.
 
On older boards with DDR and even going back to PC100-PC133 simms you had to run a specified speed. Sometimes you could slide by with the memory one speed higher since that would run at the stock speed supported.

It also depends on the type of memory as well. Some boards require single sided DDR dimms like HP, Dell, and other prebuilds that use strictly value ram. But as you can see from the photos the problem is mainly that two speed gap.

On a board supporting DDR400 memory where you lower the fsb to 133mhz DDR400 memory will then run at the 266mhz while still being supported. The memory standard is the first thing to look at however.

You need to find someone that can run that memory with a board seeing the DDR400 standard to avoid someone getting a little ..:mad: GGrrr... at you for selling them the wrong thing. Someone running an older XP3200+ or the 2800+s and 3000+s on a Socket A, a P4, or 939 model that stiill ran PC3200 memory would be the candidate for those.
 
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