will 800mhz mem work on mobo rated for 667

ebola · 09-11-2008, 09:33 AM

Hi all, I have a biostar memory board with 2 gig of 667mhz memory, i am going to get 2 2gb sticks of memory, I overclock sometimes and notice that the memory speed also goes up. My question is, If I put 800mhz memory in my computer will it still work.? Thanks for the help.

**belfasteddie** · 09-11-2008, 10:40 AM

DDr2 ram is backward compatible. You can mix speeds but it will run at the slowest speed.
You need to verify the max speed your brd wiil take, also the voltage.

Jickles · 09-11-2008, 09:26 PM

you can do that, or your bios should have an option to unlink your cpu overclocking and your memory overclocking, should be near cpu modifiers or fsb modifiers.

09-11-2008, 09:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
ebola Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 39 OS: win xp professional sp2	will 800mhz mem work on mobo rated for 667 Hi all, I have a biostar memory board with 2 gig of 667mhz memory, i am going to get 2 2gb sticks of memory, I overclock sometimes and notice that the memory speed also goes up. My question is, If I put 800mhz memory in my computer will it still work.? Thanks for the help.

09-11-2008, 10:40 AM	#2 (permalink)
belfasteddie Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Belfast N.I. Posts: 1,551 OS: Puppy Linux 4.12	Re: will 800mhz mem work on mobo rated for 667 DDr2 ram is backward compatible. You can mix speeds but it will run at the slowest speed. You need to verify the max speed your brd wiil take, also the voltage.

09-11-2008, 09:26 PM	#3 (permalink)
Jickles Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Brockport, NY Posts: 19 OS: Vista x64	Re: will 800mhz mem work on mobo rated for 667 you can do that, or your bios should have an option to unlink your cpu overclocking and your memory overclocking, should be near cpu modifiers or fsb modifiers.