Darren New nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/04 13:34:
> Alain wrote:
>> Upgrading your RAM is a snap! 
> 
> Assuming you can still purchase RAM for your old machine, and assuming 
> you know what RAM you need for the machine, and assuming you have slots 
> free, and assuming the balancing between slots is right (i.e., that 
> you're not plugging 1G into one slot and 128M into another slot that 
> upsets the BIOS), it's straightforward.
Why would that cause any problem? Unless you have dual chanels, you can have all 
different capacity modules without any problem: personal experience with 
different computers, different brand mobos, different brand RAMs.
> 
> But yah, it's maybe one step harder than replacing your hard drive, with 
> the benefit that it's volatile, so every program already accounts for 
> losing the data in it. :-)
> 
I can no longer find DDR266, but 1G DDR400 have no problem coexisting with my 
512M DDR266. Both run as DDR266, one at full speed and 1 is underclocked. As 
long as it can actualy fit in a slot, it does work.
If you have dual channels, then you need to have matched pairs, but the pairs 
from 2 different banks don't need to be matched.

-- 
Alain
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