different RAM slots?

[woot7800GT]

A question has recently been nagging me. When I looked at my mobo manual, it shows it has 4 RAM slots, 2 DDR, and 2 DDRII. What's the difference? Both my RAM sticks are in the DDR slots running dual channel. The manual says the DDRII slots run at higher clock speeds though.

 

[Trifid]

two use ddr1 and the other use ddr2.

DDR2 is better because of more bandwidth, but it is alot more expensive, with higher latencies. ddr1 has a long life yet, AMD doesn't use ddr2 yet, but they have similar bandwidth compared to intels that use ddr2.

 

[woot7800GT]

So, would I be able to go out and buy some DDR2 ram and put it in the slots and still keep my DDR1 ram in the other slots for 2048 mb ram?

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

No clue about that one, but DDRII is not nessacarly faster than DDR, since DDR still holds the records for OC'ed ram, and I think stock too.

Intel mobo's are also limited by the 800fsb for DDRII

 

[Trifid]

No, I don't think you will be able to mix them.

 

[woot7800GT]

Does anyone know if I could put DDR ram into DDR2 slots?

 

[diabloII]

if the ddrI works, just leave it there

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

Does anyone know if I could put DDR ram into DDR2 slots?

Nope, their a different pinstructure