OT (sort of): Hardware ?

[Joseph Sinclair]

I would check the MB specs.  A lot of motherboards out there run RAM at a slower speed when you exceed a certain amount (usually when you load up all of their slots).
This is done because they use cheap chipsets that actually cannot manage the RAM at the higher speed with the maximum amount installed.

Mark Jarvis wrote:
> With the holiday season over, I decided to upgrade my system from 1GB to 2GB 
> RAM. The memory I had was DDR2-800 Memory Expert from Adata. The place I'd 
> originally bought the motherboard & memory from no longer carried that brand, 
> but their tech guy said that other brands, for example Kingston, should work 
> with it with no problem. (Yeah, Right!) I had a gift card from Fry's burning a 
> hole in my pocket, so I got a 1GB DDR2-800 Kingston stick at Fry's.
> 
> Now the problem. Either stick alone shows as DDR2-800 in POST. Both together 
> show as DDR2-667. GRRRRR!
> 
> I can :
>     1) Live with it. It's only a 16-17% drop in speed.
> 
>     2) Take it back, get another Kingston or another brand (Patriot?), cross my 
> fingers & hope.
> 
>     3) Take it back and order a matching Adata stick online.
> 
>     4) Buy another Kingston 1GB to make a pair and try to sell the old Adata for 
> $10 or $15.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> 
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