PC4000 and PC3200, assistance? :)

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Ferocious Snail

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My pc has 2 sticks of 512 mb DDR PC3200 currently, I ran a test on crucial.com and it said that it also supports DDR PC4000. It has 4 memory slots in total (2 being used right now of course), and I just got my PC a few weeks so I'm still figuring everything out about it.

My question is, should I get 2 sticks of 512mb DDR PC4000, or 2 sticks of 1GB DDR PC3200?

Is there that big of a difference between the two? Thanks :)

Here's the scan info if that helps!

http://www.crucial.com/systemscanner/viewscanbyid.aspx?id=6683A59731D926C3
 
You have to go by what the board itself supports while not mixing memory speeds. DDR500 memory would be slowed down with the current DDR400 dimms you are using at the moment. You would better off simply replacing the pair of 512s with a pair of 1gb DDR500 if actually supported.

What make and model is the board there? A look at the specifications will show the fastest memory supported. If you are working with a 400mhz fsb the faster memory will be slowed to that.
 
I ran a diagnostic on Everest and it gives me:

Motherboard Name--- Intel Bonanza D875PBZ

Front Side Bus Properties
Bus Type--- Intel Netburst
Bus Width--- 64-bit
Real Clock--- 200 MHz (QDR)
Effective Clock--- 800 MHz
Bandwidth--- 6400 MB/s

Memory Bus Properties
Bus Type--- Dual DDR SDRAM
Bus Width--- 128-bit
Real Clock--- 200 MHz (DDR)
Effective Clock--- 400 MHz
Bandwidth--- 6400 MB/s

Chipset Bus Properties
Bus Type--- Intel Hub Interface
Bus Width--- 8 bit
Real Clock--- 67 MHz (QDR)
Effective Clock--- 267 MHz
Bandwidth--- 267 MB/s

Expansion Slots--- 5 PCI, 1 AGP
RAM Slots--- 4 DIMM
Motherboard Chipset--- i875P
 
The specifications on that model board are seen at http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bz/index.htm showing it supports DDR400 memory as the fastes speed while it may still run the faster DDR500 at 400+mhz slightly overclocked a little.

You won't see any big gain while going for 2gb of PC3200 at a good price would give you more of a boost plus smooth things out like seem with larger programs and games. When upgrading out of an old Socket A case to see the 939 build I simply moved 2gb of PC3200 along with the board and cpu plus into a new case.

The extra memory at 400mhz did more with Kinston Value Ram over the faster timings seen with the matched pair of 512s Corsair xms series performance/gaming memory saw. I stuck with Kingston only Hyper X memory for the new build. The new pair of 1gb PC3200 dimms would be the thing to look at there.
 
Yes, go with the PC3200 since that is what you already have in there. Your comp can support up to PC4000 but since mixing the two together won't do you any good, like PC_eye had said, go with the PC3200.
 
The best results for an older system like that would be simply replacing the pair of 512s with a 2gb kit(2x1gb) of the PC3200 memory. At this time and a good search you can find some great price reductions on DDR memory.

Keep the 512s as spare memory for the time being and run a pair of 1gb dimms in the dual cnannel mode. That will save on mismatching memory as well as seeing a performance gain depending on whether you buy value or performance type memory.

Hopefully you will running the system stock there. A tip on a few programs besides Everest is PC Wizard 2008 and SIW(System Info for Windows) both freewares with PC Wizard providing temps on the video card as well as cpu and drives and other system information. PC Wizard is found at http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

For finding out what is on a system when you have no information or model number to go by use the SIW free tool seen at http://www.gtopala.com/
 
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