Ram and overclocking

wildguy2

wildguy2

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I own a dell demension 2300 desktop with 2.0ghz Intel Pentium 4 processor PC 2100 266Mhz 256M DDR SD Ram non ECC system clock 400 Mhz.

Is it possible to use a stick of PC 3200 266Mhz 128M DDR ram? Or do have the clock speed to handle this, will DDR ram work with DDR SD ram? If I have to overclock can I with this particular computer and how?

Just a few questions for ya....I am fairly good at computers but when it comes to overclocking and ram I am lost. Please help? :confused:
 
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PC 3200 266Mhz 128M DDR ram?
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PC3200 is 200MHz ....

Normally speaking you shouldnt be able to use PC2700 (or faster) on older (PC2100 or slower) setups ... dunno why but it seems to be a compatability issue. There are a whole bunch of boards however that can use the faster ram on a slower mobo ... so it depends on the mobo, i dunno your model exactly but Dell tends to use modified ASUS boards and ASUS boards tend to not be so finicky about memory so you should be able to use it :)
 
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PC3200 is 200MHz ....

Normally speaking you shouldnt be able to use PC2700 (or faster) on older (PC2100 or slower) setups ... dunno why but it seems to be a compatability issue. There are a whole bunch of boards however that can use the faster ram on a slower mobo ... so it depends on the mobo, i dunno your model exactly but Dell tends to use modified ASUS boards and ASUS boards tend to not be so finicky about memory so you should be able to use it :)
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I just bought a stick on Ebay for $28.00 already paid for it so I hope this works....Just that my system runs very sloooooooooow when trying to play games. I am hoping that this stick may boost me a little.

My system info here: This is directly from the manual.

Microprocessor:
Intel Pentium 4
L1 cache 8Kb first level (pentium 4) 32Kb (16Kb data cache) 16Kb instructional cache)(celeron)
L2 cache 256 or 512Kb (displayed in the system setup program) pipelined burst eight way set associative write back SRAM (pentium 4)
128Kb SRAM that resides in the processors core. The L2 cache runs at the processor's internal clock speed (celeron)

System Information:
System Chipset Intel 845GL
DMA channels seven
Interrupt levels 24 APIC mode
System BIOS chip 2Mb (256 KB)
System clock 400 Mhz data rate

Expansion Bus:
Bios types PCI
Bios speed PCI 33Mhz
PCI connectors three
PCI connector size 120 pins
PCI connector data width 32 bits (maximum)

Memory:
Architecture DDR SDRAM
Memory connectors two
Memory capacities 128 256 or 512MB
Minimum memory 128MB shared DDR SDRAM
Maximum memory 1GB
Memory type PC2100 (266Mhz) DDR SDRAM (non ECC)

Does anyone know if this system can be overclocked? If so how and would this give me any boost.
 
If its from an OEM system (or older setup), dont count on it (although sometimes it might just downclock automatically). As for system/manual -- it's horrendously useless. Run CPUz and have a look to see what you really have
 
Tried overclocking my system using Clockgen one of the programs listed in overclocking 101, man that screwed up my computer severly...my cpu was stuck wide open, my ram seemed to have been freed up but the hard drive near spun itself to death and the processor was running at 98% usage definately didn't work, or most likely I screwed up, anyhow I am not trying that again.
 
Tried overclocking my system using Clockgen one of the programs listed in overclocking 101, man that screwed up my computer severly...my cpu was stuck wide open, my ram seemed to have been freed up but the hard drive near spun itself to death and the processor was running at 98% usage definately didn't work, or most likely I screwed up, anyhow I am not trying that again.
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If you read my post ... i said 'underclock'.
 
Ram Booster?

Has anyone heard of a program called ram booster? It supposedly decreases the load on the ram freeing up more of it for upfront applications. Has anyone used it? I am presently using it but it doesn't seem to be doing a whole lot, except telling me how much Ram I have left, and according to it I have 54 megs of 256 left as I am typing this, where is the rest of my ram? I am running outlook express, and 2 internet explorer windows, this use that much Ram? :confused:
 
Well as long as you have memory, you're fine ... thsoe memory freeing things dont really make that much of a difference nowadays, as bad as windows is, its not that horribly bad. To find out your memory usage, have a look through task manager
 
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