plugexpert
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 Posted: Thu Jun 29 2006 13:00
Pc hardware question about upgrading ram |
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Hey,
in my quest for the ultimate music pc, I couldnt resist an offfer in my local computershop yesterday to buy 2x 512mb DDR2 memory for around 70 euro.
After opening the pc case, I came to the conclusion my Gigabyte motherboard ( http://www.eagepc.com/product_details.php?dpid=15&catid=61&id=7898 )
has 2 slots for DDR2 memory (which are already filled with 1 gig of ram in total), but the 2 empty slots are DDR1 memory! So the memory I bought was of no use, as I need DDR1 to make it fit in the slots.
Anyways, it was no problem to trade in the acquired memory for the correct DDR1 memory. But now when I insert the DDR1 in the motherboard (so all the 4 memory slots are filled) and reboot, my computer is running slow on 256 mb DDR2 memory according to the configuration / system screen!!
Can't motherboards run on both DDR1 memory & DDR2 memory at the same time??? I want 2 gigs of ram, but don't want to buy 2 x DDR2 of 1 gig a piece , or 2 x DDR1 1 gig a piece, especially since there is already 1 gig in there.
I feel fucked, those computerneds could have told me this in the shop. But maybe I'm doing something wrong here, if anyone has experience with this please share.
grtz
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Sunbuster
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Posted: Fri Jun 30 2006 08:49
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I was surprised to hear there are mobos that support both types... But it seems totally logical that both can't run at the same time, so the nerds at the shop should have reacted when you wanted to replace your DDR2 pieces with DDR1 pieces (that is, if you said your mobo supports both types). Anything else sounds like bad customer service. |
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