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Old 04-03-2016, 01:41 AM   #585
Gregg Bell
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
Their little program thing was designed to tell you what to buy, not what will work.
It scans the hardware to see what is compatible
Isn't that telling you what will work?

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and tells you which is the best quality compatible RAM that they sell.

By "incompatible", what is really meant is "the motherboard doesn't support the maximum speed of the RAM, so it will run slower -- at the max speed supported by the motherboard".
RAM which is faster than your system supports costs more for no gain, in other words.

So any RAM will work in any machine but if you get say DDR4 RAM for a motherboard that will only support DDR2 you're wasting your money?
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