Tow different sticks of DDR400 RAM

[sharad]

Recently I purchased 1gb of DDR400 RAM, 2 sticks of 512MB each, single channel. The purchase was a few weeks apart and as a result although the brand name and speed are same the chips on the memory are different.

CPU: Athlon XP 2800+ Barton
MB: ECS KT600-A (Single channel only)
RAM: ACE 1024MB DDR400 (Set to run at 333Mhz, since the 2800+ is 333 Mhz FSB)
GPU: Radeon 9600XT

I am not into overclocking but was wondering if there are any stability issues related to running two sticks of RAM with different chips.

Any thoughts?

 

[pirred908]

You computer will just run at the slower memory speed. You shouldnt have any stability problems.

 

[sharad]

Thanks pirred908.

My Windows XP is already having lockups while playing few of the games. I have to do a reset.

Looks like I made a big mistake when I bought 1GB ram. There are no restrictions for the DDR333 memory but the motherboard's manual says it dosen't support all DDR400 modules. One thing I now understand is the ECS KT600-A is *not* a good motherboard when it comes to RAM support.

From the manual...
> DDR400 can only support up to 2 DIMMs:
> 1. One double sided DIMM (or)
> 2. Two single sided DIMMs.
> The supported chips are NANYA, Infineon, Micron.

But from what I understand this DDR400 restriction only applies when the FSB and RAM are running at 400Mhz.

Because my Athlon 2800+ Barton only has a max FSB of 333Mhz (current setting) the RAM is treated as 333Mhz (PC2700) right?

Can someone with some insight please help me out?