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DDR Memory backwards compatible

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drwoo123

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I have an older Gigabyte GA7VRXP motherboard that has a 256 PC2100 (I think) stick in there. Someone told me that I can get a PC3200 memory chip and that it would be backwards compatible. Is this true - also is there a way to check the speed of your existing memory?

thanks
 
Well yes, the new pc3200 is backwards compatible, meaning it will run as pc1600, pc2100, pc2700, and pc3200. If I were you I'd retire the 256 of pc2100 and go exclusively with the pc3200. CPU-Z is a good program to check cpu, motherboard, and memory specs.
 
Originally posted by: leedog2007
Well yes, the new pc3200 is backwards compatible, meaning it will run as pc1600, pc2100, pc2700, and pc3200. If I were you I'd retire the 256 of pc2100 and go exclusively with the pc3200. CPU-Z is a good program to check cpu, motherboard, and memory specs.
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Personally, unless your motherboard doesn't support faster speeds than PC2100, I'd ran that stick also.
 
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