[G4] Re: PC2600 vs PC2700 for MDD 333Mhz

Richard Klein richspk at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 14:15:09 PDT 2007


On 8/13/07, Technophobic_Tom at comcast.net <Technophobic_Tom at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 13 Aug 2007 at 09:25:24 -0700 Harry Freeman wrote:
>
> >On Aug 13, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Technophobic_Tom at comcast.net wrote:
> >
> >>System Profiler reports PC2600U-30330 but I find very scarce
> >>information on that DIMM. If I add a pair of 512 PC2700's, how much
> >>will their speed be downgraded by the presences of the PC2600's?
> >
> >Your platform will only run as fast as your slowest memory modules.
>
> Yeah...I knew the qualitative answer as implied in the question.
> I'm still looking for the **QUANTITATIVE** answer..."HOW much?"

Are you sure you don't mean qualitative?  Quantitatively speaking,
it'll address all the memory at the lowest common denominator: 2.6GB/s
instead of 2.667GB/s.  Qualitatively, I don't think you'll notice the
difference, but my Quicksilver only uses 133MHz SDR memory, anyway.

-- 
Rich


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