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Hey guys, I'm working on a system for a friend of the family. It's a slightly older Compaq PC thats running XP SP3 and 512MB of PC3200 ram. I wiped XP, and Formatted some Viruses and years of junk away. Now it's running much better but I'm adding more ram.
The PC has a single stick of DDR PC3200 (400 Mhz) CL2.5 Ram.. and all I have in my house to use is a stick of similar 512mb PC3200 (400 Mhz) CL3.
Can I use 2x512mb PC3200 sticks, one being CL2.5 and the other being CL3. I have them both in the system right now. and the way it looks the CL3 stick went down to 2.5 but the speed also dropped to PC2700. but it's not running at PC2700's 333 Mhz. it's doing 328Mhz.. lol
Thoughts, will the faster run at slowers speed and be stable? or should I try to Craigslist another pc3200 to match?

The PC has a single stick of DDR PC3200 (400 Mhz) CL2.5 Ram.. and all I have in my house to use is a stick of similar 512mb PC3200 (400 Mhz) CL3.
Can I use 2x512mb PC3200 sticks, one being CL2.5 and the other being CL3. I have them both in the system right now. and the way it looks the CL3 stick went down to 2.5 but the speed also dropped to PC2700. but it's not running at PC2700's 333 Mhz. it's doing 328Mhz.. lol
Thoughts, will the faster run at slowers speed and be stable? or should I try to Craigslist another pc3200 to match?
