Old dell i845E ddr 256meg

[pesh]

Yes, I have a friend with an old dell dimension desktop running on an Intel i845E board, not sure about the exact model number but it is using on one slot a 256meg ddr PC2300 ram.... i want to get 2 gigs for him, which is about 75 bucks for ddr400. Will the ddr 400 work on his board... I know thats clocked higher than what he has now, but it shouljd just underclock itself correct? Sorry for the bad typing btw. Jamed middle finger.

 

[badge]

No such thing as PC2300. There is PC2100, PC2700 and PC3200. PC3200 being backwards compatible should work fine in the 845 MB, but there is no guarantee any RAM yoiu use is absolutely cmpatible. Try running your DELL system through a RAM configurator like this to find 'guaranted' DIMMs to work in that system. I'm sure the BIOS is 'middlefingered' by DELL as far as RAM adjustment availability.

http://crucial.com/

 

[pesh]

Yeah I didnt think there was PC2300 but I opened up CPUZ and thats what it said.... Interesting. Ill run the crucial thing. Thanks for the response.

 

[acidpython]

Another note you may be running into some instability issues with unbuffered. Bit corruption can be reduced by using registered memory which will run slightly slower but more stable.