Okay so I've bought a new PC and it seems to have Two 256 MB 400 MHZ dual channel Pc3200 DDR memory.
The salesman sold me a 512 MB non dual channel 333 MHZ PC2700 stick, and said it'll work fine!!
Will I degrade my system using this?
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im doubting the new stick will even work with your current. but if it does it will most likely downgrade, yea =\
It may hurt preformance, but its not something that you are going to notice. Even at that speed, the ram is still significantly faster the the HDD, or CD drive. Most ram is backwards compatible, so if you had some in your old computer, chances are it will work in the new one.
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the ram isn't what does that, its the chipset. so if the chipset supports different speeds, it will automatically run at what the slowest is, but you wont really notice i guess, not sure on the difference in the PC values either, may or may not work. just check the pin colors and make they're the same(such as gold), on both ram+mobo