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ddr2 4200 vs. 5400?
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AhmedBM
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Mar 22, 2006, 03:33 PM
 
I got my new CoreDuo 20 incher a few weeks ago and i am surprised apple just put 512mb of ram in there

Anyway i am looking to buy 2Gb of ram for it but there is quite a price difference when looking at pc4200 vs. 5400. Is the difference really worth the money??
     
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Mar 22, 2006, 03:37 PM
 
The machine will probably work with slower RAM than it is speced for, but not necessarily well. Go with AT LEAST the speed of RAM specified.
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Mar 23, 2006, 09:31 AM
 
ok thanks, ill buy the pc5400 then
     
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Mar 26, 2006, 09:18 PM
 
The machine should work fine with the slower RAM (the chipset supports PC2-3200 through PC2-5300), it will just be slower in memory-bound tasks.
     
   
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