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#1 epstylo
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i have 2 * 256mb of samsung dual channel pc3200 ddr400 ram (200mhz) in my comp currently.

just bought another pair of dual channel 512mb kingston ram.

i got 4 slots in my comp so is it ok for me to mix the two types in a double dual channel system?

the kingston ram is a "higher quality" so would the new ram be slown down to the speed of the samsung?

that is would i be better off removing the samsung ram and going with a gig of kingston. or should i try to mix the two ram and go

with 1.5gigs.

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#2 Marfoo
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The faster RAM will be slowed down, from what I know Intel boards have a technology to mix different RAM speeds. Is the Kingston RAM not PC3200? First find what the fastest speed your motherboard supports, if the fastest speed is PC3200, go ahead with the 1.5gig, slowing down the Kingston won't affect your performance. If your board supports a higher speed, you will get more speed out of 1GB of Kingston and the expense of 512MB of RAM, so it depends, I don't think you'll be drastically affected by just having 1GB compared to slower 1.5GB, it depends what applications you are going to be running really.
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#3 epstylo
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the highest speed my comp supports is pc3200 and both the samsung and kingston is pc3200 ddr400

so i should go for 1.5gigs?