Re: Memory RAM Upgrade
- From: KillerDesigns <KillerDesigns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:26:01 -0700
thanks, all points noted. also i am not the kind that worries about 1 sec
difference etc.. so, all in all i think 2*512mb sticks will do better, and
if 4*256mb (=1gb) sticks (all same spec) might give the desired outcome or
1gb and 1*256mb (as jerry suggests) does not show any significant
improvement, this might be an option.
i'll see what Crucial suggests and offers.
thanks
"JS" wrote:
I would not use the remaining 256MB stick after upgrading.
to 2*512MB sticks. As I mentioned before you only stand
the chance of slowing down your memory performance.
Even if all three sticks had the same specifications, an
extra 256MB is not going to be noticeable or work any
wonders increasing your PC performance.
And when your PC had both stick functioning giving
you a total of 512MB of ram did you have any problems
with a specific application running slow, if not and you
were happy with 512MB, then adding more that 1GB
of memory is a waist unless sometime in the future
you plan to upgrade to Vista, then 2GB or more
would be worth it and you still have two slots available
to use if need to add more memory.
JS
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"KillerDesigns" <KillerDesigns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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also, assuming i use 2*512mb sticks in 1 and 3 slots, and will the 256mb
existing ram make a difference?
and if i use 1gb in slot 1 and 256gb in slot 3 - will that make a
difference.
regarding speed and efficiency?
"JS" wrote:
The second post mislead me to believe he has 4 slots.
Sorry about that.
I still would go with the two 512MB sticks
as most motherboards and or BIOS will drop to
the stick that has the lowest performance specs.
JS
"Jerry" <Hello@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"JS" <@> wrote in message news:e7kKHNYIJHA.4600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Option #2 - 2*512MB sticks running in dual channel mode.
Easy way to verify that your motherboard supports dual channel
(you indicated it has 4 available slots) is that two slots should be
one color (for example Blue, slots 1 & 3) and the other two
slots (slots 2 & 4) are for example Orange in color.
Double check your manual for supported memory configurations
and types of memory. Generally you will use the first and third
slots (the slots with matching/are the same color) when installing
memory sticks in Dual Channel mode.
If you use the first two slots (For example Blue and Orange)
you will still have 1GB of memory but the memory will not
be operating in Dual Channel mode.
JS
He indicated that the motherboard only has 2 slots, not 4. I would
recommend that he go with a single 1gb stick and keep his existing
256mb
stick. It will cost less money, the increase of 1gb will make ample
improvements over what he has and if he ever wants to increase memory
again he can just buy another single stick. I seriously doubt that the
average computer user could tell the difference in performance between
a
1gb of memory versus 1gb of memory running in dual channel mode.
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