DDR2 533 memory on a DDR400 board. Will it go?

[Bogus69]

Building an AMD 64 system so will have a mobo that supports ddr400.
I am finding it hard to find a pair of 1GB sticks in DDR400 and am wondering if I can put DDR2 533 (PC4200) in instead?

If so, will this result in higher overclockability?

 

[Bogus69]

Actually. I think I found the answer.

"no"
🙁


If I was to go with PC3200 DDR ram will I notice much difference compared with DDR400

currently my options are 2x1GB Kingston DDR400
or OCZ, Corsair performance stuff but only in PC3200.

Which would be better.

 

[Citizen_Z]

Even extra no because DDR2 is physically incompatable with the DDR1 slot. Square peg in triangle hole.

Oh and DDR 400 and PC 3200 is the same stuff. DDR 400 relates to the clock speed in MHZ and PC 3200 refers to the bandwidth, namely, that at 400mhz DDR rate, the memory will transfer at 3,200megabytes/sec. Theoretically, anyway.

 

[apache_lives]

DDR400 = PC3200, PC3200 is the bandwidth and DDR400 is the effective speed.

Matching sticks - aslong as there the same brand and model should be fine, eg 2x corsair 512mb XMS3200's would work in dual channel fine.

 

[Bogus69]

Phew. thanks guys :|

 

[tamalsmith]

Building an AMD 64 system so will have a mobo that supports ddr400.
I am finding it hard to find a pair of 1GB sticks in DDR400 and am wondering if I can put DDR2 533 (PC4200) in instead?

If so, will this result in higher overclockability?

if you want to burn your pc, go ahead and try it 😛