using 3200ram on max2700 motherboard?

[forumer9]

I have:
asrock GE PRO mb
intel celeron @2,4GHz
256Mb RAM

I bought:
SUPER*TALENT 1GB DDR-400 PC3200 RAM
Heatspreder 64MX8 CL3
D32PB1GJ

I just realized in mb manual it says:
2 DDR DIMM slots
support PC1600(DDR200) / PC2100(DDR266) / PC2700(DDR333), Max 2GB
!!!

there is no support for 3200!!!

I went to store to buy slower memory and 3200DDR is slowest they have. nothing under that for DDR1.

my question:
is it safe at all to try put that 3200 RAM in mb? my friend said I might kill RAM, CPU, HDD or MB if I try to put 3200RAM in MB that supports max 2700.

what to do?
please help!!!

[Pob255]

No you shouldn't kill anything, you should be able to underclock the memory to 333mhz.
You might have problems with auto detect settings, so you'll need to set it manually, if you're planning to use both sticks then set the speed to the speed of the slower ram stick.
You'll probably have problems in dual channel mode as they are so differnt so it'd be best to turn that off as well.

(these are settings in the BIOS by the way)

[this_is_gav]

It'll be fine - no problems. The board should just limit the memory (regardless of SPD settings) unless you tell it otherwise.

The absolute total worst that could happen is that it won't post, but frankly we'd have sufficient grounds for planting smoke bombs at ASUS HQ if that were to happen.

[DougMcDonald]

I happily ran PC3200 in a 2700 board for a while before and upgrade, shouldn't do any harm.

As people have said, you ram will just be underclocked to 333Mhz instead of 400.