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"Forum User" <forum_user@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> MIchael Brown wrote:
>> Forum User wrote:
>>
>>> Michael Brown wrote:
>>>> Forum User wrote:
>>>>> Michael Brown wrote:
>>>>>> ReddShadoe wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>>>> And if
>>>>>>> this is possible, would this 2GB combination prohibit me from
>>>>>>> using Dual Channel mode?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In theory, assuming the timings were set corectly, no. In practice
>>>>>> they may simply just not want to cooperate in dual-channel mode.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rubbish.
>>>>
>>>> No, you are the one talking rubbish. It's not very common, but in
>>>> some cases two quite different sticks will just not work together
>>>> however hard you try. There's plenty of information out there on
>>>> this, just use google.
>>>>
>>>>>>> And also, would it slow all the DIMMs down to
>>>>>>> 333MHz?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Complete rubbish.
>>>>> They'll run at whatever the lowest max for any one stick is.
>>>>
>>>> Are you blind, dumb or just trolling? Read what you just quoted
>>>> above: he's wanting to put a stick of PC3200 (= 400MHz using the
>>>> OP's notation) along with a stick of PC2700 (= 333MHz in the OP's
>>>> notation). 333 < 400 so it'll run at 333MHz.
>>>
>>> It'll run at whatever FSB he sets it to, if it's within the
>>> capability of the slowest stick.
>>
>> Nice dodge. And you didn't respond to the first section either. You
>> do sales or marketing by any chance?
>>
>>> I run all sorts of combinations of slow and fast RAM - and never had
>>> a problem.
>>
>> I was in the same situation, until about three weeks ago ...
>>
>>> But you know what they say : - those who know, do - those who don't,
>>> teach.
>>
>> And those who think they know but don't have the experience to know
>> that what they know isn't the universal rule go onto usenet and
>> proclaim themselves to be the One True Source of information.
>>
>>> You've obviously never tried it before.
>>
>> Damn, so the 5-odd 939 boards and the 10-odd dual-channel P4 boards
>> I've set up or worked with that have had weird configurations have
>> been illusions.
>
>
> No, but they may all have been exceptions ... hehe.
>
>
>>
>> If you want first-hand evidence (which you will no doubt call an
>> invention since it doesn't fit your picture of the world, but hey), I
>> recently tried to stick a 512MB generic stick (AM1, CL3 at DDR400
>> can't remember the other timings) along with a stick of HyperX (CL2,
>> google will tell you the other timings). The motherboard was a Soltek
>> K8T800 Pro 939 board; I can't remember the name off the top of my
>> head. It was since the software he was running (home-grown nuclear
>> physics simulation) was needing more RAM, and it would take a week or
>> two to grind through the paperwork to get another stick. I had the
>> AM1 more or less lying around spare, so I loaned it to him for a
>> couple of weeks (or that was the plan).
>>
>> Popped it straight in and it wouldn't boot. Somewhat surprising to
>> me, since I'd seem more weird combinations working, so I removed the
>> HyperX, fired it up (it booted fine), and put the board into manual
>> timing mode (which used the current AM1 timings). IIRC, the memory
>> timing capabilities of the board were somewhat limited. Only the most
>> common 3 or 4 properties. Trying to boot with both stick still didn't
>> get anywhere. Tried loosening (and also general fiddling with) all
>> the timings even more, dropping it down to DDR333 and even DDR200,
>> and the only time it POSTed was with loosened timings DDR200, where
>> it was so unstable that memtest86+ crashed before it even really got
>> running.
>>
>> This is the only time I've ever had trouble with a mixed-memory
>> dual-channel setup out of the 15-odd "mixed-memory" dual-channel
>> boards I've worked with. The one that I had problems with probably
>> was one of the least mixed configurations I've dealt with. So like I
>> said, it's not common, but it does happen.
>
> I think what the OP should be drawing from all this is that the
> overwhelming likelihood is that he won't run into any problems - and that
> he should go ahead ... he has my blessings.
>
>
What I'm drawing from this is that you like to start arguments. I am the
OP, and I and the responder both have pointed out more than once that my
slowest stick is 333Mhz. Therefore, all 4 sticks would run at 333Mhz. Your
childlike responses take all credibility away from you.
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