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3200 ram in a 2700 slot?

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 10:19 am
by 123cool
As some of you may know i am looking to upgrade my system after christmass but im an arse and decided i would like to buy some 3200 RAM for my mobo to see how far i can really overclock my CPU.


As it stands though my board only supports upto 2700 RAM(currently running 2100 RAM in it one stick of 512MB not sure on make), anyone know if this would be ok.

as far as my logic goes the 3200 ram should just underclock to the 2700 speeds that my mobo can handle....Plus i thought i would keep the 3200 RAM for my full upgrade after christmas(might as well buy the ram now while i have the money).

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:04 am
by FlyingPenguin
Yes, you can put faster ram in the system. It's only going to run at the speed the mobo is configured to run the RAM clock.

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:04 am
by smb
what kind of motherboard is it ? most ram nowadays is backwards compatible, so you shouldn't have a problem.

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:09 pm
by 123cool
what kind of motherboard is it ?


its a ASROCK K7VT4 mobo.

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 7:32 pm
by Viperoni
Definetely should work fine, but it is an Asrock motherboard so you never know ;)

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 8:06 pm
by zandor
Yep, no problem there.
I actually have a habit of running ram under spec. 4 133fsb Athlons w/ PC2700 ram and 1 166 fsb Athlon w/ PC3200 ram so far.