Will anything bad happen of your ram has a higher rated FSB than your processor? like my ram is pc2100.. and fsb is 133.. so that's equal... but if i went out and bought pc 2700 ram, would my system actualy be any faster? or would it be the same due to my processor fsb of 133?
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QUOTE would my system actualy be any faster? or would it be the same due to my processor fsb of 133? Generally, you want to run your memory synchronously with the FSB(i.e. at the same speed) - if you have a VIA KT333/400(A)/600 chipset, you might get slightly better performance if you're running the memory at a faster speed than the FSB. If you have a NForce2 chipset, running memory and FSB asynchronously(i.e. at different speed) will actually decrease performance
Running asynch should usually not cause any stability-issues, tho. Also, ALL DDR-SDRAM is fully backward compatible - i.e. PC3200 memory will run at PC2700 or PC2100 speeds without problems. If you're going to buy new memory, i recommend you get PC3200 right away - there isn't too much of a difference in price vs. PC2700 and it will run just fine even if your motherboard only supports PC2100/PC2700...just make sure you manually set your memory to 133 or 166MHz in BIOS.
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