Will this RAM work in my DDR2 Slot (?)

Blackhawk47 · 8 Apr 2008 at 20:31

been looking at this ram as its on other and the speed means that in the future if i do get a knew motherboard it will be able to obtain faster speeds.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-114-CR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=817

at the moment i have some crucial value stuff which i guess gets the jobs done but doesnt open me up to any overclocking.

my motherboard supports these speeds for ram: DDR2 667/533/400 memory

but im not hundred percent sure that it will work in my mobo since the ram i want in question is rated at 1066MHz and according to my mobo manual-website iit only allows for a max of 667mhz speed.

Ive heard that ddr2 ram is backwards compatable but again i am not completely sure.

anyone help me out ?

Scoobz0511 · 8 Apr 2008 at 20:55

that ram is very good and will run fine in ure system The extra speed also means you dont have to overclock ure ram to achive good clocks.

Cob · 8 Apr 2008 at 21:20

Blackhawk47 said:
my motherboard supports these speeds for ram: DDR2 667/533/400 memory

but im not hundred percent sure that it will work in my mobo since the ram i want in question is rated at 1066MHz and according to my mobo manual-website iit only allows for a max of 667mhz speed.

Which motherboard do you have? The Balllistix needs 2.2v and a lot of boards can't supply that.

Blackhawk47 · 8 Apr 2008 at 23:10

right having a look around bios and manual - though that wasnt helpful at all as all it said was 1.8v. anyway in bios it is currently set at 1.9v. and i can increase it . it has a little helpful chart thing saying when like it is highlighted grey it is at default , when it is white it is something else and when its yellow the ram is on high performance settings and when it is red it says the system could be unstable.

now according to this i can put my voltage for my ram up to 2.1v and it would be on the high performance settings (yellow) , however when i push it up to 2.2v it goes into the red a apparantly that could make the system unstable. (though i dont really know how much to trust this unless it is just a guideline).

Blackhawk47 · 8 Apr 2008 at 23:15

i guess i could shop around for a these http://www.corsair.com/_datasheets/TWIN2X2048-5400C4PRO.pdf

Scoobz0511 · 8 Apr 2008 at 23:37

that ram will be fine at 2.1v mate. anything more than 2.1 kills ballistix after a while. So it will be safer to run it at 2.1v

Blackhawk47 · 9 Apr 2008 at 11:16

so it should work then , great but why does it say it need 2.2v ? is there anything ill miss out on ? (lol not very good with ram tbh)

Cob · 9 Apr 2008 at 21:08

I would ignore the red 2.2v warning. It'll be there to scare n00bs.