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Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on April 02, 2007, 10:53:30 am ---
OTOH, that speed difference will be so negligible that you'll never perceive it.  People put too much stock in raw specs that make zero difference in 99% of circumstances.

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OTOOH, speaking from experience, often you buy the 333 Mhz memory b/c it's cheaper, then you update the processor and motherboard to 400 Mhz, but you know you have the same type of memory available, so you dump the 333 memory in the 400 motherboard and wonder why you start getting memory errors after 6 months or so.

Harry Potter:
not so the 333 being cheaper.

I went to buy some 266 RAM a while back.

512Mb new was $99AUS, 333 was $75 and 400 was $52.

Supply and demand and the demand is greater for 400.

Danny, get the 400 sticks. You should be able to pick up a 512Mb for $55-60 if you look around a bit.

ChadTower:

I have always mixed and matched my ram as to whatever I could get least expensively at that moment and actually functioned.  This is over a decade on many machines.  Not once have I ever had a RAM error or DIMM/SIMM failure.  I tend to run my machines 24/7 for years at a time.  I don't even look at speed.  I look at size, "will it work with this motherboard", and price.

danny_galaga:

cool, so the upshot of it is as long as its ddr ram, then the speed isnt critical and if i mix and match then the slowest ram is the speed it will run at. its off to ebay for a couple of 512s then (",)

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on April 03, 2007, 07:24:57 am ---cool, so the upshot of it is as long as its ddr ram, then the speed isnt critical and if i mix and match then the slowest ram is the speed it will run at. its off to ebay for a couple of 512s then (",)

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Not exactly - if it's 400 and your motherboard is set for 333, then it will run at 333.  If it's 333 and your motherboard only supports 400, it will run at 400 (for a while . . .).

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