New Memory - Just Does Not Make Sense

ChloeRadshaw · 12 Sep 2009 at 23:02

I have two 512 sticks in at the moment and have a Lanparty 915p t12 motherboard

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=738

Bottom line is it has four slots (but both of them are different colors on the hardware ) and I am not sure if one is slower then the other

I used an app which tells me I have Hynix DDR2 memory running at 200MHz frequency

Can anyone say with certainty what memory I can buy to make this a 4GB machine??

I tried a kingston stick (xw4200an) which did not work!!!!

trackrat · 12 Sep 2009 at 23:11

According to the link you gave, the memory slots support different memory.
You have four DIMM slots, two of which are for DDR (orange) and two for DDR2 (yellow).
If you go on to the Crucial Memory selector page you will be able to find a match, but it looks like you will be limited to 2GB's

ChloeRadshaw · 12 Sep 2009 at 23:12

trackrat said:
According to the link you gave, the memory slots support different memory.
You have four DIMM slots, two of which are for DDR (orange) and two for DDR2 (yellow).
If you go on to the Crucial Memory selector page you will be able to find a match, but it looks like you will be limited to 2GB's

Can you help me find the link on crucial

FatalSaviour · 12 Sep 2009 at 23:31

http://www.crucial.com/uk/index.aspx
Middle of the page...

Memory Advisor Tool will do what you need.

ChloeRadshaw · 12 Sep 2009 at 23:34

FatalSaviour said:
http://www.crucial.com/uk/index.aspx
Middle of the page...

Memory Advisor Tool will do what you need.

This one???

http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT6464X40B

FatalSaviour · 12 Sep 2009 at 23:35

Here's the resolved query...
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listparts.aspx?model=LANPARTY UT 915P-T12

FatalSaviour · 12 Sep 2009 at 23:38

ChloeRadshaw said:
This one???

http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT6464X40B

That's laptop RAM sorry. The link I posted above should be good for your board.
Here's what Crucial says: Each memory slot can hold DDR PC2700,DDR PC3200,DDR2 PC2-5300,DDR2 PC2-6400 with a maximum of 1GB per slot.*
So if you click the link, you can choose from any of the 2GB kits.
You'll want to make sure that DDR2 is also checked in the box on the left, as this will probably be cheaper to buy than DDR1.
I hope that makes sense?

FatalSaviour · 12 Sep 2009 at 23:48

This is what Crucial recommends for your board (the DDR2 is under half the price of the DDR1 in most cases, so I've filtered by that).

FatalSaviour · 12 Sep 2009 at 23:49

And this is the initial place you should be selecting on the Crucial home page, just in case you want to double-check and go through this from the start:

FatalSaviour · 12 Sep 2009 at 23:51

Last post...you can also get 7% Quidco if you click on the crucial site through them, hope that helps!

Linky

JonJ678 · 13 Sep 2009 at 00:15

I would be surprised if the board could run ddr and ddr2 simultaneously, but I don't know for sure that it couldn't.

ChloeRadshaw · 13 Sep 2009 at 00:26

JonJ678 said:
I would be surprised if the board could run ddr and ddr2 simultaneously, but I don't know for sure that it couldn't.

i tried a mix of stuff - i could not get both to run the same either

FatalSaviour · 13 Sep 2009 at 00:52

I would be 97.3% sure you wouldn't be able to run both (DDR1 + DDR2). However, if you take your current memory out and buy one of the kits above, you should be able to get 2GB into your machine.
HTH

ChloeRadshaw · 13 Sep 2009 at 07:43

FatalSaviour said:
I would be 97.3% sure you wouldn't be able to run both (DDR1 + DDR2). However, if you take your current memory out and buy one of the kits above, you should be able to get 2GB into your machine.
HTH

If I am going to take out existing ram why not go for DDR2?

Would this be better? Does crucial sell this stuff??