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p.s. excuse me english. im from L.A.

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p.s. excuse me english. im from L.A.

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Original post by aeleneski
I am building my own computer and the motherboard I bought has 3 ddr ram slots. When I was buying other items for the computer, I got a hard drive and sd ram deal. Since money is tight, I was wondering if SD Ram could be used in one of the DDR Ram slots temporarily, until I get enought money for DDR Ram.

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Can you? Yes

Should you? Negative Ghost Rider, Negative.

Check the specs for your motherboard to see what bus speeds and types of memory it will allow. I''m gonna take a stab in the dark and say that the SD Ram has a different bus speed than what your motherboard is fixed with, which means your motherboard is going to get very confused when it attempts to initialize your memory. It''s kinda like when you''re putting a puzzle together and you force a piece to make it fit. You might get it in there, but you may not get it out, and the picture might not look very good when you get done

"I''ve never seen that. I''ve never seen anybody drive their garbage down to the side of the street and bang the hell out of it with a stick. I''ve never seen that."

As the DrunkenBastard has said , I''m afraid you are out of luck. Building a P4 are you ? Some mother boards support both SDRAM and DDR. You are stuck with only DDR which is twice as fast as the SDRAM due to the usage on the rising and falling of the clock cycle. When you do buy RAM, make sure there is plenty. At least 128Meg. The newer operating systems do like room to manuver. The DDR is more expensive but probably worth it. At least you seem to have a relatively modern mother board. That''s a good thing for being able to upgrade.

Guy