New stick is faster than my old sticks.

I had an extra stick of memory laying around and just got around to putting it in. It's an OCZ Gold stick, which my other two are as well. However my other two are slightly slower than my new sticks. Some google searching came around to show me that this should be fine, my computer should just slow the faster stick down to the slower speeds and run normally. However they did say that there were some cases where it tried to do it the other way around, and speed up all the memory.

It seems as though this may be my case. I'm sitting here in the BIOS (I'm writing this from my laptop.) I can't seem to find anywhere to change my memory speeds, would anyone have any information on how I might be able to figure this out?

Thanks
-Amo

Also, here are the speeds:
First two sticks:
PC2 5400 4-4-4-12 OCZ Gold Edition GX XTC

New Stick:
PC2 6400 5-5-5-12 OCZ Gold Edition XTC

Did you build this computer yourself? If not then they probably disabled overclocking, which can include the memory clocks.

Badbonji said:

Did you build this computer yourself? If not then they probably disabled overclocking, which can include the memory clocks.

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Yes I did. These are the two sticks I'm currently using in my computer:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227078

I have a spare one of these exact sticks that I'm trying to put in:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227124

This is the current Motherboard I'm using:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138077

Edit: Lol, it's kind of funny. When I bought those sticks they were $88.99 it's kind of pathetic the price they are now.

You have to accept it will drop in value very quickly. Believe me, the memory I got dropped to half price the same month I got it ; ) but it has done me well (until my pc had a tantrum yesterday, stock currently).

You have one stick? I would buy one more, after checking it works because you will be running single channel, which will give you half the bandwitdh from dual channel and actual make your pc slower.

Badbonji said:

You have to accept it will drop in value very quickly. Believe me, the memory I got dropped to half price the same month I got it ; ) but it has done me well (until my pc had a tantrum yesterday, stock currently).

You have one stick? I would buy one more, after checking it works because you will be running single channel, which will give you half the bandwitdh from dual channel and actual make your pc slower.

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Ah, that makes sense. If that's the case I'll probably not even deal with it and just order up another 2 sticks of memory of the same speed as my originals.

Thank you for your help

Amo said:

Ah, that makes sense. If that's the case I'll probably not even deal with it and just order up another 2 sticks of memory of the same speed as my originals.

Thank you for your help

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That would not be wise. You would be better served by getting a 2x2GB kit like these:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227267