Upgrading, do i need to match current?

[seanbrockest]

This is the memory i have intalled right now. It's from the CPU-Z program recomended on this forum.


Memory SPD
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DIMM #1

General
Memory type DDR-SDRAM
Manufacturer (ID) Jade Star Technologies (7F7F7FD600000000)
Size 512 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC2700 (166 MHz)
Part number
Manufacturing date Week 00/Year 00

Attributes
Number of banks 2
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Registered no
Buffered no

Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 133 166
CAS# 2.0 2.5
RAS# to CAS# delay 3 3
RAS# Precharge 3 3
TRAS# 6 7
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I want to upgrade, i know how much my motherboard can support, but i'm wondering about matching. I cant find any 2700 ram around. I imagine it's too slow to be sold nowadays. But what should i buy now?

I want to buy another 512 or 1024, my motherboard will support both (max 2 gig's, with 2 open slots) but i probably wont buy that much.

Thanks.

 

[the_guru]

PC3200 is backwards compatible with PC2700.

 

[seanbrockest]

Great, thanks a bunch!

 

[Rugger]

What are the rest of your system specs? Guru is right - the system will just run the RAM at the speed of the slowest memory in the rig.

 

[seanbrockest]

CPU - AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+
Mainboard - Asus A7V8X-X (latest bios as of today)
Ram - 512 MBytes of PC2700 (166 MHz)

I want to get the cheapest ram i can, without sacrificing the speed of what's already there.