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Old 4th Jan 2008, 17:08
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I have 2gb of 800mhz, and 2gb of 400mhz. I don't know much about how RAM sticks work with eachother, so I'm wondering if I would be better off using all 4 gigs, or if I should just use the 800mhz.

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Old 4th Jan 2008, 17:22
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If you mix different RAM sticks, they will probably work together, but all of your RAM will run at the speed of the lowest module.

Also unless you are running a 64 bit OS such as XP64 or Vista 64, only 3gb will be utilised anyway, so my advice would be stick to the 2 fastest sticks and put the others on ebay
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Old 4th Jan 2008, 17:25
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Sounds good. Thanks!
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