memory speed in relation to cpu speed question? confused.

[Pez D Spencer]

I have a computer I am trying to sell. The it has a Chaintech 7NJL6 motherboard in it and an Athlon XP 3000+ CPU.

The original motherboard that housed the CPU went bad so I replaced it with the 7NJL6. The original motherboard had 512MB of PC2700 RAM in it. I had a stick of 256MB PC2100 laying around so I put that in the system as well although I know that the 256 stick of PC2100 will pull the PC2700 down to PC2100.

When I got this motherboard I didn't pay attention to the fact that it does not have onboard video which the old one did. As a result I don't have any video on the PC right now. I don't have any AGP or PCI cards laying around all my PC's have PCI-Express cards in them. The computer started up but of course there was no video and I got a series of beeps from what I assume is from the absence of a video card during the POST.

Heres my question. The person that is interested in the PC emailed me and said that because the computer has an Athlon XP 3000+ in it it wont handle the PC2100 RAM and requires PC2700 333MHz memory.

Is he right on this or what? Im thinking he is since the XP 3000+ uses a 333Mhz bus speed.

Can someone clarify this for me?

Heres the specs of the mobo:
http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=13&PISNo=277

Thanks.

 

[o1die]

It may not run as well, unless you set your cpu fsb speed to 133 (underclocked), same as the pc2100. My old ecs nforce2 board didn't even have dividers built into the bios. In any case, I wouldn't mix different speeds of memory on the same board.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

It will work, but it won't perform nearly as well as it could.