Getting RAM

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thedoors27

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Ok so someone told me last night that I had to get the right MHZ ram for my computer and if my motherboard was dual I could get any MHZ ram I wanted too.

My question is I read that my computer has 266MHZ in at the moment, so is the motherboard dual and can it take any ram?

As theres a 333MHZ ram that I am after and its going rather cheap.

(My ram is DDR Ram)
 
Ok so someone told me last night that I had to get the right MHZ ram for my computer and if my motherboard was dual I could get any MHZ ram I wanted too
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1. You can always get any speed of memory you want
2. If you can & want to use Dual channel (requiring motherboard/cpu support), then the same memory speeds are required
3. Regardless, if you put two differing speeds together, they will run at the lower of the two speeds

To answer your question we'll need to know the mothebroard in question
 
Ok heres what I know about my motherboard.

It's a IM845G motherboard, intel pentium 4, two DIMM sockets.

Also the point of "if you can and want to use dual channel then the same memory speeds are required" what exactly is dual channel?
 
So if i bought two bits of ram indentical and put them in that would be dual channel?
But surely that would clash with the first law, "You can always get any speed of memory you want"
 
In order for them to work in dual mode they must be the same size, speeds and (CL). I can"t find any info on your mobo. Look at you manual it should say if it has dual mode option.
 
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