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bbcmicro
April 27th, 2007, 11:33 AM
If I put the wrong type/speed of ram in a modern PC, will it damage the PC (I'm not really bothered if anything happens to teh rams)?

Simple question :) I have some lying around which I want to test out.

dongfeng
April 27th, 2007, 11:57 AM
It will work, but at the lower speed. You won't be able to fit the wrong type of RAM as they are notched differently.

carlsson
April 27th, 2007, 01:29 PM
And the PC will sync to the slowest memory, if you have several of different speeds installed?

Vlad
April 27th, 2007, 04:02 PM
I know DDR will clock down to the lowest speed, I dunno about SD. I know RDRAM forces you to use the correct speed, but its pretty picky on what you do with it.