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    PC12800 ram in M17xr2?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by aarpcard, Feb 28, 2011.

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    There's been a few threads on this the past week or two but - any RAM placed into a R2 motherboard above 1333MHz will downclock to 1333. Limitation in the processor/chipset architecture.
     
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