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    RAM upgrade HP Pavilion ZD8210

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by alext5, Feb 7, 2008.

  1. alext5

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    Hi, my parents have a 2 or 3 years old HP ZD8210ca and they would like to upgrade the RAM from 512MB of DDR2 400 to 2GB of DDR2 667.

    Would the motherboard support this ram ?

    Just so you know the ram is really DDR2-400 not DDR-400, validated everything with CPU-Z.

    Thanks in advance
     
    alext5, Feb 7, 2008
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  2. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    The max speed on that bad boy is ddr2 533, so I wouldn't bother getting anything over that as it will just downclock anyway.
     
    adinu, Feb 7, 2008
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    It is better to buy the exact number you currently have if it is cheaper, this because if the motherboard doesn't support the newer 667MHz speed, then it will automatically clock down to 400MHz.

    In the worst case scenario, it wouldn't recognise the memory at all.
     
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  4. alext5

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    I just checked the price on DDR2 400 and the stick are more than 3 times the price of the DDR2-667. So most likely it would downclock to DDR2-533 right if I bought the DDR2-667 ?
     
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    yes

    you could try look for 533MHz RAM?
     
    TonyZ, Feb 7, 2008
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  6. adinu

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    Yeah if ddr2 400 ram is expensive, then just get the cheapest ddr2 modules you can find, and then they will just automatically downclock themselves to the correct speed.
     
    adinu, Feb 7, 2008
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