1066MHz RAM in a 800MHz capacity mobo?

Drake5 · 14 Apr 2012 at 18:30

I only just noticed this, I have looked on my motherboard and it says DDRII 800 next to the RAM Slots but I have been running 2 X 2GB Corsair 1066MHz RAM for about a year and never really noticed any issues.

Would this cause a significant slowdown in my PC or something?

Cheers

RJC · 14 Apr 2012 at 18:33

The ram will run at the lower speed without issues.

Download CPU-Z and this will show your memory speed, you will need to double what cpu-z shows.

Drake5 · 14 Apr 2012 at 18:34

RJC said:
The ram will run at the lower speed without issues.

Fantastic! So it'll run at the 800MHz speed?

RJC · 14 Apr 2012 at 18:34

Tom_D said:
Fantastic! So it'll run at the 800MHz speed?

Yes

I have just done a quick ninja edit to my post above

Drake5 · 18 Apr 2012 at 17:01

So is all this fine?

Cheers

Drake5 · 18 Apr 2012 at 17:34

My mobo specs says it only supports 1.8V RAM but the RAM in it is 2.1V.

Will that cause any issues?

RJC · 18 Apr 2012 at 18:42

Your running at 800mhz which is good, 1.8v is the standard voltage, if you get any issues you can / should able to increase the voltage in the BIOS.

Drake5 · 18 Apr 2012 at 18:49

RJC said:
Your running at 800mhz which is good, 1.8v is the standard voltage, if you get any issues you can / should able to increase the voltage in the BIOS.

Cheers mate.

What sort of issues should I be looking out for?

RJC · 18 Apr 2012 at 18:50

Tom_D said:
Cheers mate.

What sort of issues should I be looking out for?

Your Welcome

Mainly BSOD or failure to boot.

Drake5 · 18 Apr 2012 at 18:52

Ah in the time I've had this RAM running I've never had those issues.

I was more worried that I'd maybe be getting a hit on performance.

RJC · 18 Apr 2012 at 19:06

That's good news

farlow2012 · 18 Apr 2012 at 23:57

my mobo same with xms2 4 x 1gb it good for oc'ing over 800mhz too