Octopus Overlords

I have a Dell Dimension 8300 that currently has 512 PC2700 333MHz memory. I want to add another gig, but both Dell's and Crucial's web sites list both PC2700 and PC3200 is available for my computer. I would obviously like the PC3200 memory, but will it work with the slower memory already in the computer? On top of that how do I know if my MB even supports PC3200? Dells don't come with much in the way of documentation. I am guessing Dell's site wouldn't let me buy memory that wouldn't work in my computer.

Thanks for any help.

If you mix memory speeds, all will run at the slowest speed. However, sometimes different speeds won't play well together - I have a bunch of old Dell Optiplex GX200's that came with either 40 or 45ns memory, and they don't work at all it we put a stick of each into the same machine.

Thanks Jeff, I took to your warning to heed and ordered PC2700 . I figured I was better off with 1.6 gig of flower memory than just one gig of fast memory. Hope that was a wise decision.

Got to love Crucial, ordered it today and it will be here tomorrow thanks to reasonably cheap next day air.