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Old 11-16-2006, 02:26 PM   #2 (permalink)
ricer333
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First off, the memory.

Yes, that memory you have should work just fine. It is the correct speed rate that your MB supports. I would suggest tho, just spending the extra money and fully upgrading the memory. I do not know what you have in there now (2x128MB chips or not) but upgrading to the 1GB chips (2x1GB chips) now would make a lot more sense down the road.

As for the video card, know that most AGP cards are backwards compatible. This means that if the card says it's an 8x it will down grade to support your 4x slot. Most things within the computer system now (including memory) downgrade the bus (that's what the speeds represent) to the slowest (or lowest) number.

This is the case in memory as well. If your board can support 266MHz memory, but you buy 1 266MHz chip and 1 233MHz chip (not even sure if that's possible, but just using it for illustration) the board will downgrade the 266MHz chip to that of a 233MHz speed, essentially throwing away that money for the extra 33MHz.

Hope this helps! Good luck and remember what I said about the memory. "Penny wise, pound foolish"
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