Adding Memory Incompatibilities. Reality or nightmare?

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I just meant in PAIRS. The 800FSB machines are dual channel. You DON'T
want an uneven number as they'll run in SINGLE channel mode.

Tom
"S.Lewis" <stew1960@mail.com> wrote in message
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> "ric" <publicmail@infobubble.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message
> > news:<L7ydnTJyseGc3F3d4p2dnA@comcast.com>...
> >> Dual-channel DDR needs to be in matched pairs.
> >>
> >
> > bollocks it does.
> > it's not magic this, it's just DDR ram.
> > i have seen a *lot* of stability problems due to out of spec ram - buy
> > it direct from micron from their retail arm at www.crucial.com.
> > you *do not* need to match pairs - you just need sticks that work in
> > your board which is not always an exact science with other brands.
> > i have personally tested just about every board out there with just
> > about every brand, usually several times.
> >
> > ric
>
>
> Mule muffins. By "matched pairs", Tom meant "matched (specs) pairs", and
> he's completely right. Sure, you can mix (for example) sticks of Micron
> with other brands such as Samsung, Infineon, Nanya, blah blah. As long as
> the specs. match (PC2100/2700/3200 as well as capacities) the machine will
> run correctly.
>
> Mix the specs. and the machine will default to the slowest speed RAM or in
> some freaky cases, may revert to single channel mode from dual.
>
>
> Stew
>
>

 

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"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message
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>I just meant in PAIRS. The 800FSB machines are dual channel. You DON'T
> want an uneven number as they'll run in SINGLE channel mode.
>
> Tom

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I get it. I got it. I live it, learn it and know it.

I'm not sure that the previous poster does, however.