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  1. March 20th, 2003, 11:56 PM #1
    davepoet
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    Mixing DDR Memory...

    I have a system that uses a VIA KT400 chipset. The board is made by MSI.

    I have an Athlon XP2000+ in it with 256MB of DDR333 memory. I however now have 2 more 256MB DDR266 DIMMS laying around. All are CL2.5.

    Would I be able to mix these and the system would just scale down the DDR333 to act like the DDR266 like PC100 does with PC133?
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  2. March 21st, 2003, 07:08 AM #2
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    yep.
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  3. March 21st, 2003, 07:43 AM #3
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    It depends on the motherboard. Some will tolerate it, some will not. Unfortunately the only way to find out is to try and see.
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  4. March 21st, 2003, 10:45 AM #4
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    Well, I am planning on trying tonight and seeing.

    Will let you know!
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  5. March 21st, 2003, 10:31 PM #5
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    Worked fine in my board (MSI-KT4V)

    In fact, scores better on benchmarks as to Memory bandwidth like this
    1 DDR333 256MB 2.5 @DDR266
    2 DDR266 256MB each 2.5

    compared to just the one DDR333 running at DDR333. Odd.

    Either case, it works so I now have plenty of RAM to hold me over until I buy an Athlon 64 setup.

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