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Graphics - Video game performance problems posted in the Hardware forums; Originally Posted by alexd10 Thanks. I'm looking on the tigerdirect site, and ram i need is ddr400, but it also says "pc3200". I dont know what that means and it ...

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Thanks. I'm looking on the tigerdirect site, and ram i need is ddr400, but it also says "pc3200". I dont know what that means and it doesnt say anything like that on my old ram. What does it mean and is it compatible?
Can you take a look at your current stick and tell me what the label says? Should at least have a serial/part number I can look up, or might have the speed/PC number
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Having looked here I found your mobo doesn't support pc3200 speed. Also here, and here I found your motherboard supports ddr333, and not ddr400 like you said you need.

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That's true, if you put PC3200 memory in it, it would run it at PC2700 speeds and could potentially heavily impact performance

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If you took your DDR400 stick from the old motherboard, and put it into the new one, that would explain your performance loss


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That's true, if you put PC3200 memory in it, it would run it at PC2700 speeds and could potentially heavily impact performance

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If you took your DDR400 stick from the old motherboard, and put it into the new one, that would explain your performance loss
Yep I just saw in the manual I need either DDR333 or DDR266 SDRAM. Not my fault, I had a shop install the motherboard, I guess they should have told me my old ram was not compatible. So if I just pop in a stick of 1gb DDR333 ram, you think it will improve?
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Yep I just saw in the manual I need either DDR333 or DDR266 SDRAM. Not my fault, I had a shop install the motherboard, I guess they should have told me my old ram was not compatible. So if I just pop in a stick of 1gb DDR333 ram, you think it will improve?
Significantly.

Call the shop and tell them they're morons for me will ya?

If I were you though, I'd try and grab a 2x1Gb PC2700 (DDR333) kit
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Update:

just took out the PC3200 ram and popped in my new 1gb pc2700 ram. No difference whatsoever in the performance. Should I try to put both sticks of ram together or will that ruin the motherboard?
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Hello alex just put old stick in first slot next to CPU and the new stick next to it.

See how she starts up.


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