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Can I put pc3700 2x512mb with 2x1gb pc2100 on my system??

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meinsiide   03-22-2006 at 03:43:41 AM

Heya, I have two sticks of Geil pc 3700, 2x512mb and 2 of samsung pc 2100 2x1gb

... my mb is an Asus P4G8X DELUXE
- The manual says that the mb supports 4gb (dual channel) of memory using PC 2100/pc1600 ...

I'm just wondering if there is a way I could do it?? Any help would be great, thanks!

-Joe

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angry_ducky   03-22-2006 at 03:49:28 AM
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I wouldn't mix RAM speeds

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sturm   03-22-2006 at 04:33:56 PM
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go ahead and try it. The faster memory will slow down to what the fsb is set to. I would go into the bios and manually set the memory speed to pc2100 speeds.

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meinsiide   03-22-2006 at 04:34:17 PM
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That's what I thought, I was just wondering if there was a way it would work. Also, when I just put the PC3700 in, it causes the computer to hang... do you know why that is based on those mb specs?

--oops didn't see that message-- kay, I'll try it. =)

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meinsiide   03-22-2006 at 11:37:07 PM
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okay... so why is it bad to mix ram speeds then?? Also, I went into the bios and couldnt see where to set the memory down, any help?

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mpjesse   03-22-2006 at 11:56:08 PM
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Generally speaking it's bad to mix latencies- not necessarily RAM speeds.

So long as you can get all 4 sticks to run at the same latencies and frequency everything should work fine.

It's probably not working right now because you've mixed up the latencies. What are the latencies on the PC2100 memory?

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