[Discuss] OT - Memory Upgrade

[jdmulloy at gmail.com (Joseph Mulloy)]

Yeah, buy 1333, although it looks like it might run it at 1066 anyways
with 2 4GB DIMMs. DDR3 is fairly old at this point, so I don't think
there is much savings from buying 1066 RAM.

Joseph Mulloy

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 2:06 PM <epp at mcom.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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