There have been times where I put in a faster clocked ram in a system with a lower clocked motherboard, FSB, etc. (I.E. put in pc 2700 ram in a machine originally build for pc 2100.) The rule was that the computer would recognize the new ram, and throttle it back to the maximum speed supported by the system. My pc 2700 ram would be throttled back to pc 2100 speeds.
It wouldn't hurt anything to put in the higher speed ram, it just didn't perform any faster.
It wouldn't hurt anything to put in the higher speed ram, it just didn't perform any faster.