Quick Question

[ManBearPig]

I'm pretty sure i already know the answer but i will ask regardless ...

If a pc has DDR2 ram can it use reg DDR?....or does it have to meet the specific requirements for the pc?

 

[mrcool]

I did a little looking around online and it appears the answer is "no."

 

[Die Geheimwaffe]

Unequivocally no.

 

[bigbaddabooma]

yes it can use reg ram....

 

[malalla]

off topic ...... man bear pig do u play cod4 on the broadcast server or some1 has the same name???
unfortunetly i dont have an answer for ur ques. :d

 

[yellowbadger52]

no you can not use regular ddr. I dont think it will fit for 1. and 2. you cant mix and match different types of ram. Its the same way with ddr3 and ddr2 as well. Can use one in the other either.

 

[trykael]

right - what they said...DDR and DDR2 RAM will not fit in the other's slots because they are keyed differently. it's just enough to be really annoying because it seems like it SHOULD fit. so be careful, because if you try to force it you'll have a set of broken RAM...

 

[Die Geheimwaffe]

yes it can use reg ram....

No you absolutely cannot use DDR in DDR2 slots or the other way around. They are not interchangeable.

There might be confusion over this because for a time there were several series of motherboards that did support both DDR and DDR2 or DDR2 and DDR3. However the different types of memory slots were on different buses, if you wanted to use one type of memory you had to use the correct slot(s) for it and you could not use both types of memory at once.

 

[Mikkel]

IF you could your DDR2 RAMs would go too DDR RAM speed, hence slow.

 

[mrcool]

IF you could your DDR2 RAMs would go too DDR RAM speed, hence slow.

But you can't, so it doesn't' matter

 

[Die Geheimwaffe]

IF you could your DDR2 RAMs would go too DDR RAM speed, hence slow.

If you could physically fit a DDR2 module in a DDR slot you would fry it because they use different voltages. JDEC requires that a DDR2 module be able to withstand voltages up to 2.3 volts before incurring damage versus the minimum JDEC requirement of 2.5 volts for DDR to even function. In addition, many newer boards are incapable of running even DDR2 533 when paired with processors that utilize the 1333 MHz or faster FSB so if you installed a DDR400 module in a DDR2 slot and increased the voltage to 2.5 volts you better be able to overclock the memory to at the very least 533 Mhz but likely higher.

It just doesn't work on so many different levels.

 

[Jesh]

I believe Mikkel was trying to point out that's why they've moved on from DDR to DDR2 is because they developed a way to make it faster and better. I don't think he meant the OP should try to force his DDR into a DDR2 slot.

 

[Blue Stealth]

im pretty sure its not possible considering the fact that the number of pins and their positions on the modules differ between ddr and ddr2

answer is NO please dont post yes.

-Blue