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[DaneDog311]

Hi everyone

I have been trolling this forum for a week now and decided to join... I have decided to join... I have an upgrade question about my ram maybe someone with some good technical advice could help me out.

This Pc is equipped with a D101gcc grant county mother board. From emachines it has 1 PC 3200 Infineon 512 Ram Stick. I am looking to go to 2gb which would require two sticks.

The emachines page says it is DDR400 and that should be compatible, but i ran CPU-Z which indentified the motherboard for me. I went and got the pdf file from intel and it says to use DDR400 for a 800fsb and DDR333 for either 800fsb or 533fsb.

I have a Celeron D which has a FSB of 533.

My PC does have a DDR400 module of 512 but it is running at 200mhz...

I guess my question is Do i go with 2 1gb sticks of DDR400 or DDR333... it comes with DDR400 but only runs at 200mhz and the motherboard specs say use DDR333 if 533 FSB... any help would be great...

Here is the pdf for the indentified Motherboard
http://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/gc/D3610502US.pdf

Here are the specs from eMachines
http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=Desktops&subcat=W-Series&model=W3503

THANKS AGAIN!!

[DaneDog311]

CPU SPD dump on existing ram

General
Memory type DDR
Manufacturer (ID) Infineon (C100000000000000)
Size 512 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC3200 (200 MHz)
Part number 64D64300HU5C
Serial number 0D05D623
Manufacturing date Week 22/Year 06

Attributes
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Registered no
Buffered no
Nominal Voltage 2.50 Volts
EPP no
XMP no

Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 133 166 200
CAS# 2.0 2.5 3.0
RAS# to CAS# delay 2 3 3
RAS# Precharge 2 3 3
TRAS 6 7 8

[mjc]

OK, your problem is not really a problem...just that there is no 'standard' way of saying the exact speed something is running at, among every program that is reporting the speeds.

There are several different 'buses' in a computer, that run, ultimately, off the basic clock chip. The speed of a particular bus is a multiple of the 'base' speed...

Second, the speed of memory is given as the maximum supported speed. So, even if your machine can't provide the fastes speed a stick of RAM is rated for it will still work, but just run at the lower speed...

So, to the non problem...

Since this isn't a 'high performance' machine and the increased amount of RAM is going to be much more critical than the speed it runs at...go with two GB of the cheaper one...

[DaneDog311]

DDR400 would work ok then? I'm looking at this becuase it's cheap and 1.5gb more then i have :) http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=X32PB2GC