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Car712
By Car712
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Ok so I bought this old Dell optiplex on ebay to use as a server, only thing is, it only came with 2GB of DDR3 PC3-12800. Now my question is, if I were to take 4GB of DDR3 PC3-8500 from my old build (2x2gb since the optiplex only has 2 slots for RAM), would it better than having 2GB of PC3-12800 ram, although its a lower speed?

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memory slots usually backward compatible. it will work.

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For most things you would do with a home server, more RAM is probably going to be better than faster RAM. This being said, DDR3 RAM is going for very cheap secondhand if you are looking for the best of both worlds.

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