Can my LAN Party motherboard have DIMMS of differing capacities/types?

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I have a LAN Party UT nF4 motherboard. It comes with 4 DIMM slots. The computer comes with two DIMMs.
How can I tell whether I can mix and match different RAM capacities/types?
Here are back and front pics of one of the DIMMs.

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Have you tried the current sticks yet in the motherboard? The board specs say it supports up to DDR 400 - the stick pictured is 500. If they do work with your mobo, and you're looking to add two sticks, you'll want to match the current ones as closely as possible, which may not be easy considering their age, to have the best chance of having them work together. Match the brand and model, if you can. Otherwise, match the specs as closely as possible: DDR 500, 1GB, 184-pin, PC4000, CL 2-3-3-8. Again, match them only if the pair you have now actually work with that mobo.

The only practical way to know whether the mobo and current RAM will work with new sticks with different capacity or speed is to try them out.

Alternatively, you can find a matched set of four that have been binned, tested and sold together. The set linked below is an example.

http://www.1stchoicememory.com/catalog/viewitem.asp?id=3762&qty=1&submit2=Buy+Now
 
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Hi, VolcanoScout,
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, the 2 sticks I've photographed are from the computer, and they were working the last time I used this computer (a few years ago).

Thank you very much for providing the link. Sady, I'm afraid $120 for 4GB of RAM is too expensive for me. I thought that, for such an old computer, parts/components would be very cheap.
 
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I think you're going to run into a steep price anywhere you look, unless you buy it used. PC component pricing, particularly with DRAM like your current DDR, can follow a reverse bell curve. Price is high when new, tapers off as newer components come on the market and drive the price down, then gradually rise again as manufacturers stop making it and the available supply dries up. Very few memory manufacturers still produce DDR2, let alone DDR like yours.

If you're fixing it up as a personal project or for sentimental value, it's not going to be cheap. You can find stuff on eBay, but there's always the chance it'll be faulty or DOA. If you're looking for actual performance, it'd be cheaper and easier to build a new system and performance would be infinitely better.
 
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Hi, VolcanoScout,
Thank you again for your helpful reply. I appreciated learning about the reverse bell curve. I mistakenly thought that CPU components were like most other things: they get cheaper as they get older.

I was looking into upgrading this computer because I thought it may be cheaper than starting off fresh. But maybe I should just start off fresh, eh?

I'm looking to spending about $350 to get a computer that can run games like BioShock Infinite, GTA5, Max Payne 3, Dead Space 3, Tomb Raider, Vegas Six, XCom Enemy Within, etc. I do _not_ need to play the latest, most-demanding games (those games with super-high system requirements). Maybe I'll create a new thread with a call for suggestions. :)
 
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If you start a new thread in the Systems forum, you'll get a ton of useful suggestions. Just post the info from your last paragraph, and whether your budget includes peripherals like monitor, keyboard, mouse. $350 is a very tight budget, but you should still be able to get something much more usable.
 
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