Orange Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Abit annoyed with this one. My pc is somewhat 3-4 years old, upgraded it and also overclocking it. So i thought to upgrade it abit more with a SSD and 8GB RAM (Going from 4GB DDR2 to 8GB DDR3) My board said it fit and work a DDR3 ram up to 8GB, so brought the Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 Mhz Now when installing it, the pins were different so it wouldn't fit! I actually didn't know the ram had different pins and very annoyed me that i now have to take it back to Amazon and get new ram. How do i tell how many pins my current ram has? so i don't make the same mistake again when i buy DDR3. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trag3dy Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 DDR2 and DDR3 are not compatible in any way. As far as I'm aware. Orange 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Qat Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 You can't put DDR3 sticks into a DDR2 slot. They are physically different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radium Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 DDR2 and DDR3 are not compatible. They are both 240 pin but not electrically or physically compatible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 Oh so how come AIDA64 Extreme Edition said to me my board can fit "Supported Memory Types DDR2-667, DDR2-800, DDR3-800, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333 SDRAM" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted July 14, 2014 Veteran Share Posted July 14, 2014 first question is what board do you have or who made your system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trag3dy Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 nvm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Abit annoyed with this one. My pc is somewhat 3-4 years old, upgraded it and also overclocking it. So i thought to upgrade it abit more with a SSD and 8GB RAM (Going from 4GB DDR2 to 8GB DDR3) My board said it fit and work a DDR3 ram up to 8GB, so brought the Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 Mhz Now when installing it, the pins were different so it wouldn't fit! I actually didn't know the ram had different pins and very annoyed me that i now have to take it back to Amazon and get new ram. How do i tell how many pins my current ram has? so i don't make the same mistake again when i buy DDR3. Thanks. Looking up the current memory part number, or mobo info, should tell you how many pins you need for the memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grinch Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Oh so how come AIDA64 Extreme Edition said to me my board can fit "Supported Memory Types DDR2-667, DDR2-800, DDR3-800, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333 SDRAM" Software isn't perfect, you should look up your motherboard for your computer and not rely on software to find out. Eliminates a lot a potential issues such as this one. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted July 14, 2014 MVC Share Posted July 14, 2014 Aergan, Jose_49, Eric and 1 other 4 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 Good points all round, board is old.. Foxconn P35A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lingwo Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Here is the crucial memory finder page http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/compatible-memory-for/FOXCONN/p35a Good resource to use in the future. Orange 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Qat Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Oh so how come AIDA64 Extreme Edition said to me my board can fit "Supported Memory Types DDR2-667, DDR2-800, DDR3-800, DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333 SDRAM" AID is telling you what the chip set can support. What you actually get access to is dependent on the mobo maker. Orange 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ichigo+ Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 That Board does not support DDR3. Only DDR2 http://www.foxconnchannel.com/ProductDetail.aspx?T=motherboard&U=en-us0000318 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 AID is telling you what the chip set can support. What you actually get access to is dependent on the mobo maker. oh my so there's me thinking i can.. ok thanks everyone who helped straight away. One more question, i got older DDR2 ram (667mhz) currently got DDR2 (800MHZ) in my pc, can they both be mixed? so i'd have 2x2GB DDR2 667MHZ and 2X2GB DDR2 800MHZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted July 14, 2014 MVC Share Posted July 14, 2014 oh my so there's me thinking i can.. ok thanks everyone who helped straight away. One more question, i got older DDR2 ram (667mhz) currently got DDR2 (800MHZ) in my pc, can they both be mixed? so i'd have 2x2GB DDR2 667MHZ and 2X2GB DDR2 800MHZ Typically you can but the PC will run both sticks at the lowest of the 2 speeds. So in this case it would throttle your 800 mhz stick down to 667 Orange 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyfrog Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 oh my so there's me thinking i can.. ok thanks everyone who helped straight away. One more question, i got older DDR2 ram (667mhz) currently got DDR2 (800MHZ) in my pc, can they both be mixed? so i'd have 2x2GB DDR2 667MHZ and 2X2GB DDR2 800MHZ You can but they will all run at the speed of the slowest module, in this case 667. Orange 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3X4S Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Go ahead and mix the DDR2 - you wont notice a bit of difference, just forget about OCing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 I used to have a board that supported both DDR2 and 3, it had 4 slots for DDR2 and 2 slots for DDR3. Only one kind could be used at a time (for obvious reasons) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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