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1245238 2011-11-24 05:41:00 www.pbtech.co.nz - PBTech is having a sale on this particular RAM module at the moment. My laptop is currently running on two modules of DDR2 RAM. Are DDR3 memory modules backward compatible? Thanks

Cheers :)
Renmoo (66)
1245239 2011-11-24 05:43:00 No each type of RAM has a different pin configuration gary67 (56)
1245240 2011-11-24 05:55:00 Ah bugger. A real bugger. :( Renmoo (66)
1245241 2011-11-24 06:32:00 RAM is usually backward compatible in terms of speed, but Never between types. e.g. DDR3 1600 will happily work at 1333 (usually).
There has never to my knowledge been a RAM socket shared between more than one type of RAM so you can't even plug it in.
dugimodo (138)
1245242 2011-11-24 07:49:00 no GameJunkie (72)
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