hello all 
i'm making an upgrade to my old acer aspire 2023 laptop. It still uses DDR memory so it will be an expensive upgrade.
However, pc2700 (333 mhz) and pc3200 (400 mhz) sticks cost exactly the same - i'm buying Hynix memory btw. The difference between them, besides the clock speed, is the CAS latency 2.5 to the pc2700 and 3 to the pc3200.
My system runs 333 mhz memory, but eventually i will want to overclock the front side bus.
I am under the impression that the pc3200 memory is exactly the same as pc2700, except that the latter reached higher clock speeds when the modules were tested in the factory.
So my question is, if i buy the pc3200 and stick them to my laptop without overclocking, it will revert to 333 mhz clock speed, but will it revert to CAS latency 2.5?
waiting for a hardware guru to respond...
i'm making an upgrade to my old acer aspire 2023 laptop. It still uses DDR memory so it will be an expensive upgrade.
However, pc2700 (333 mhz) and pc3200 (400 mhz) sticks cost exactly the same - i'm buying Hynix memory btw. The difference between them, besides the clock speed, is the CAS latency 2.5 to the pc2700 and 3 to the pc3200.
My system runs 333 mhz memory, but eventually i will want to overclock the front side bus.
I am under the impression that the pc3200 memory is exactly the same as pc2700, except that the latter reached higher clock speeds when the modules were tested in the factory.
So my question is, if i buy the pc3200 and stick them to my laptop without overclocking, it will revert to 333 mhz clock speed, but will it revert to CAS latency 2.5?
waiting for a hardware guru to respond...
