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Old 12-04-2005, 06:04 PM   #1
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Exclamation abit KN8 memory question

i'm planning to buy the Abit KN8 with and Athon 64 3200+ The board says its memory standard is pc3200 but i have a 512 stick of pc2700. Will it work? I cant afford any other memory right now.
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It should work, but the CPU may have to adjust accordingly, and slow down performance (but I'm not familar with that CPU, so it may not), but it should still work.
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Old 12-04-2005, 10:49 PM   #3
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The CPU will not slow down, the memory will run asynchronous which will reduce overall performance.
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