Ram question

[scoobyben]

What would happen if I ran 2 sticks of DDR400 and 2 sticks of DDR333 memory on one board? Would it work ok?

[kidzer]

If i remember correctly, all the RAM would work at DDR333 speed - similar to a chain being as strong as its weakest link, RAM is as fast as its slowest piece.

[scoobyben]

will 333 cause a big bottleneck on a 3.8 64bit system with an SLi setup?

[kidzer]

There might be a negligble difference in performance, but I wouldn't think you would notice it.

[-ChEM-]

you can just overclock to DDR400 anyway by raising the timings a bit, normally timings are better than bandwidth but DDR333 is a bit slow so it would probably be best to knock it up to DDR400 in that case

[teachmech]

If you are running an AMD system then all 4 slots filled would run at 333 (for Clawhammer, Newcastle and Winchester) at 2t command and at 333 for venice as 333 would be default speed. As mentioned you could be able to overclock upto 400 on a venice core.

[scoobyben]

would it be wise if I'm going to try and clock the processor too?
Not had much experience of clocking RAM. Have done CPU once but wasn't too sure about it.

[teachmech]

If you really want 2Gb buy 2x1GB and sell current modules on Ebay.

Find max cpu overclock then add memory and see what happens.

[-ChEM-]

ram and processor should be fairly independant, just make sure you keep the ram on say DDR266 3-5-5-10/2T while youre testing the chip and tighten it later when you've reached the limit of the chip without anything else getting in the way