I am building a new PC over the course of the holidays through to late winter/early spring next year. I wasn't planning on it, but it looks as if I will be buying the memory I am looking at for my build next; I found a deal too good to pass up.
My question is, If I have a motherboard with a chipset that only supports DDR2 upto PC2-4200 (an Intel 915P) will I be able to use the OCZ PC2-6400 2 x 1GB kit in it until I need it for my new PC? I know this question may be sound obvious, but I am hoping that the memory clocks itself down or the chipset operates it at a supported (for the chipset) clock.
The memory is rated at 800MHz / 4-4-4-12 @ 2.1 V, but that's all semantics -- as long as it works in my mobo at PC2-3200 or PC2-4200 I could care less.
I could really use 2 GB of memory in this PC until my new build, and this would kill two birds with one stone.
My question is, If I have a motherboard with a chipset that only supports DDR2 upto PC2-4200 (an Intel 915P) will I be able to use the OCZ PC2-6400 2 x 1GB kit in it until I need it for my new PC? I know this question may be sound obvious, but I am hoping that the memory clocks itself down or the chipset operates it at a supported (for the chipset) clock.
The memory is rated at 800MHz / 4-4-4-12 @ 2.1 V, but that's all semantics -- as long as it works in my mobo at PC2-3200 or PC2-4200 I could care less.
I could really use 2 GB of memory in this PC until my new build, and this would kill two birds with one stone.
