[Discuss] OT - Memory Upgrade

[epp at mcom.com (epp at mcom.com)]

Joseph Mulloy wrote:
> What's the motherboard model?
>
> All slots run at the same speed. It lists two different speeds that it 
> supports, it's not that one slot is one speed and the other is the 
> other. Ideally you should get memory that all matches in at least 
> speed if not size. Matching memory helps with running multiple 
> channels in parallel. I'd buy the faster of the two supported speeds, 
> which is DDR-1333 especially since that's what you already have. 
> Technically faster memory can run slower if the system needs it to. So 
> if you did buy 1066 ram your existing 1333 might be slowed down to 
> 1066 and you'd lose performance.
>
> If what you already had was 1066, I'd still recommend getting 1333 so 
> that I'm the future if you got 1333 to replace the 1066 you'd get more 
> performance.
>
> Tldr, buy 1333 ram.
>

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02552467

H-Apricot-RS780L-uATX, made by Foxconn.