Oic,,I got TARPED in the interwub... Lolx..... Thanks for all da clarification. Any software to test the ram stability for lappie?

For laptop, manufacturer most likely use the CHEAPEST, WIDELY AVAILABLE PARTS to make even on the package.

Thus, giving u 533 DDR2, and mind you, have u ever receive 1GB in single SO-DIMM but 2*512MB SO-DIMM? Again, it's cheaper that way, to the manufacturer, not to end user.

As for spoil, what will spoil? The whole laptop? Any good explanation to support that? Believe in proofs, not Kopitiam crapcocktalk.

It's all depend on your laptop chipset presets. Most OEM laptop's BIOS got minimal option, and worse, my VAIO can only let it ar SPD, can't OC, can't manipulate.

The thing is, it's using a VIA Apollo-derived 266MHz chipset. I've been using DDR333 for more than 4 years... still going strong

so, did this life testimony debunked your friend's crapcocktalk?

u've got it http://www.memtest.org/, run it as long as u can. by the way, wat d u mean by TARPED in the interwub?

If something will go wrong.. then why the hell people still overclock them? back in the days when DDR333 runs at DDR500 24/7 for months, isn't that even more torturing?

tell ur friend to read more before insisting that he's correct

Thanks da ladies and gentlemen,i got clear understanding liao.

@edwin, mean that i get tricked in internet lol..

From what I remembered, DDR667 is no different to DDR533, as instead of running on 1:1, it can run quite happily on 4:3, which is better to overclocker as they can change that and overclock quite high compared to the DDR533

looks like its a myth only

my athlonXP system also installed with DDR333 and DDR400 together. i cant boot into WinXP, unless i manually lock the RAM speed at DDR333.