On 01/16/2013 07:41 PM, Matt McKenzie wrote: > > Running mixed speed RAM sticks won't hurt, it just means your higher rated > RAM isn't performing up to its optimum capability. > So, avoided in the case that you want to be running everything at its best, > then yes. Avoided to prevent permanent damage, not necessarily. > > You might check the docs for your specific motherboard to see the max > amount of RAM it can use (and max speed rating), in many cases for desktop > boards with 64bit CPU, it is 8GB or 16GB. Server rated boards can get into > some big numbers such as 128GB etc.
The specs say max capacity is 4 GB total memory. Specs also say the machine "Supports DDR2 667, DDR2 533, or DDR2 400 MHz DIMMs. > In any case it would make sense to get rid of the older slower sticks and > put in newer faster higher capacity sticks. I'll probably watch for 1 GB, 533 sticks and get two of those. I remember something about them wanting to be "matched" although I don't know what that really means. Is it just that the pairs need to be a match of size and speed? Or is there some other thing about them that can be matched? > Something to look for, if/when shopping for new RAM, there seems to be a > good deal of savings when buying them in pairs, such as 2 x 1GB sticks, or > 2 x 2GB sticks etc. > At least I usually see this on places I shop such as Newegg.com. I just > bought a pair of 2GB sticks which will be going in to my wife's computer. I've seen that, too. IIRC, yesterday (Wednesday) I looked on Amazon and saw pairs of 1 GB sticks, as well as 2 GB sticks. Thanks for the additional insights. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
