jbrown156 :
DDR2 5300 is 667 Front side bus speed
DDR2 6400 is 800 Front Side Bus speed
if you place the 6400 in with the 5300 the 6400 will be slowed down to the speed of the 5300 ..you will only get more ram and not big performance boost .. it will just feel like you added a 2gb 5300 ram and not a 6400
...you wont reap the benefit of the 6400 at all .. you should never use two different fsb rams in you system
To add a few things on to this:
- You would only benefit from something like this if the
amount of RAM was causing a bottleneck, not the speed. For example, if you only had 2GB of RAM and you upgraded to 4GB, then you'd most likely notice a difference. Going from 4-6GB? I don't know. My guess is it wouldn't do much.
- What version of Windows do you have? If it's 32-bit Windows (which is possible because this sounds like an older machine), then its limit is 4GB of RAM anyway, so this would do you no good whatsoever.
- Mixing and matching RAM is a roll of the dice. Ideally the system is SUPPOSED to just lower the speed of the faster set to match the slower set, and often it succeeds. But sometimes you get two sets of RAM that need different voltages, or whose timings are too different to work together, or just don't play nice for whatever reason, and then you can either end up with a machine that won't boot, or an unstable system that crashes all the time. It's best to avoid.
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