ram clock speed help and advice?

Question

say i buy a 1GB PC2700 333Mhz DDR SODIMM ram stick.

what does the PC2700 and 333mhz mean? and what do they do? will it make a big difference to the performance of the ram? and what would you recommend?

thanks!

Answer 1

No it will depend on the bus speed set by your motherboard and processor. A few boards allow you to overclock your RAM but this is honestly not advisable, you won't see much improvement but you will have an unstable system.

Just saw your mention that it is SODIMM, in which case you have a laptop which will almost certainly not allow for a different RAM speed than it was designed for.

Answer 2

PC2700 is the bandwidth, 333Mhz is the speed. Since the RAM sends 8 bytes at a time, you take 333x8, giving you the PC2700. Quite obviously, the faster the speed of the RAM, the faster the RAM is. To give a good recommendation, I would need to know what type of system you are putting the RAM into. Email me with that info and I can be of more help.

Answer 3

PC2700 I believe is just a serial or model number, and doesn't hold much significance for you. 333Mhz, however, is how fast the ram is. The more Mhz you have, the faster it will run. I don't know exact figures for RAM, so I can't tell you if 333Mhz is a good speed or not. If you just bought it, it should be plenty fast enough for you, though.

Answer 4

PC2700 indicates that the throughtput of data the RAM can handle is 2700MBps, while 333MHz is the speed at which the RAM is capable to transfer data.
You can only put that type of RAM in your motherbaord that it can support. Read the manual of your motherboard before you buy the RAM. Each motherboard can support a specific type of RAM i.e. EDO RAM or SDRAM or DDR or DDR2 etc and the speed is aso a liitation like D945 chipset intel motherbaord can only accept DDR2 RAM modules upto 667 MHz while D965 chipset intel motherbaord can only accept DDR2 RAM modules upto 800 MHz speed.

Answer 5

The PC2700 is basically the "style" more or less. 333 MHZ is the speed that the RAM is going to process information from the bus speed.

Answer 6

The '2700' in PC2700 is actually the theoretical maximum bandwidth of the memory.

PC2700 = 2.7GBps

Answer 7

if you're operating duel records cost memory then your truthfully speed is 333. 166 x 2 = 332/333 bypass to the SPD tab in CPUID and verify to ascertain what memory your are operating. PC2100 = 166, PC2700 = 333, PC3200 = 400, etc

Answer 8

It tells you the speed of the RAM stick and how much power needed to support that speed.