PC2100 Memory in a Socket 939 Mobo?

[fightcancer]

I'm thinking about upgrading my mobo for faster GPU, CPU. Can I use my existing PC2100 Crucial sticks in a mobo such as this?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813138264

Thanks!

 

[Steve]

You can, won't run as fast as say PC3200 but it'll run.

 

[Aluvus]

Should be just fine, though you will give up some performance.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Yep, done it, works fine

 

[Lemon law]

So you are upgrading to get a faster GPU and CPU----yet you will then hobble your self with a memory transfer bus that is 2100/3200 or 65% as fast as it could be. Actually it won't hurt you at all if the bottleneck is somewhere else---but depending on the application--you may be wasting money upgrading.

But before you do it---I would want to reseach what is slowing down my apps---and you can cover a multitude of slow memory transfer bus problems with a really big L2 cache on the CPU--as long as you are not perpetually reloading said cache---again application specific.

But if you do need that quick main memory transfer bus---you should be looking at a board that takes DDR2 memory.