Re: MEMORY

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:40:38 -0800

Jim,

Thank you very much. You have been extremely helpful.

Rod
>-----Original Message-----
>The motherboard sets the speed and you have to have RAM
that
>can run properly at that speed. PC2100 will run just
fine,
>so will faster rated RAM, but it will all run at PC2100
>speed in your machine.
>
>
>"Rodney Chelius" <Rodney.Chelius@verizon.net> wrote in
>message news:c6ce01c40928$288122b0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>| I just recently purchased a HP Pavilion ZT3000
notebook.
>| I intensionally configured it with 256MB. I plan on
>| increasing the memory to 2GB. It has a 400mhz data
>| processing speed. In researching the memory purchase at
>| Crucial, Viking and Kingston I find three different
>| memory chips, PC2100, PC2700, and PC3200. A long time
ago
>| someone told me to divide the PC number by 8 to roughly
>| estimate the memory bus speed. Since the bus speed
>| estimates are approximately 263, 338, and 400
>| resectively, can a 400 mhz run on either speed or
should
>| it be matched to the bus speed? If one were to run
PC2700
>| in a 400 mhz machine what effects will it have? Will
>| running slower speed memory hurt the machine? Thank
you.
>|
>| Rod
>
>
>.
>

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