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    From ROB MCCART@VERT/CAPCITY2/CAPCITY to ALL on Thu Apr 28 17:10:00 2011
    Not sure if anyone would have run across this or not but..

    You have a computer that can use DDR400 or DDR266 memory.
    (What's that PC3200 and PC 2100 I believe?)

    Anyways, the motherboard auto detects the memory chip and
    adjusts the multiplier to run the memory at 800 mHz.

    Is there any reason to believe that running the slower memory
    would make the processor run hotter ? Is it working harder
    to multiply the slower memory up to speed ?

    Benchmarking the computer with both types shows the slower
    RAM is actually a little slower but not enough to worry about
    but some of the things I do on the system come very close to
    overheating the processor so I wondered if swapping the memory
    out to faster stuff might help...

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