Re: Is PC3200 RAM the same as PC2-3200?

Nate Edel wrote:
> 
> Chris <chhuber@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > I have one machine with PC-3200 Ram, DDR 400 and want to use it in
> > another machine, but that 2nd machine requires PC2-3200 with DDR2. Are
> > they the same?
> 
> They are not the same.  PC3200 is aka DDR-400 and is a 184-pin DDR DIMM.
> PC2-3200 is aka DDR2-400 and is a 240-pin DDR2 DIMM.  Physically
different
> sockets.
> 
> > I have never seen PC2-3200 for sale. Is this a Dell part number?
> 
> It's rare to find it for sale these days, and was never that popular -
> DDR2-533 was pretty much equally cheap by the time boards started moving
in
> mass to DDR2 sockets.
> 
> I'd be surprised if your system couldn't use DDR2-533 (PC2-4200) DIMMs
> instead of DDR2-400, but obviously it would bear checking.  Check out
> Crucial.com

DDR2-400 must be slow compared to DDR400; the CAS time for DDR2 was always
longer, only helped by faster DDR2.