ram question..

2006-02-14 09:11:22

#1

Drykill: I Like Waffles.; +47|6921|England

hi,
i have just bought 2gb of ram off ebay and was thinking of using some of other ram aswel so that i have 2.5gb's in total.
i was wondering which would be best to use:

2gb running at ddr400
or
2.5gb's running at ddr333 (thats what speed my mobo reduces it to when i use 4 sticks of ram 2 x 1gb & 2x 256mb)

any ideas?

2006-02-14 09:15:19

#2

D.Beeson: Member; +2|6900

2GB should perform better, and I doubt the extra 512MB would be noticable anyway.

2006-02-14 09:42:56

#3

Drykill: I Like Waffles.; +47|6921|England

cheers

2006-02-15 20:53:21

#4

Crunch1234: Member; +4|6889

i only got 384 mb of ram is that bad?

2006-02-16 02:05:41

#5

-_{MoW}_-Assasin: Member; +13|6957|Australia

Crunch1234 wrote:
i only got 384 mb of ram is that bad?

yep

2006-02-16 23:51:41

#6

-=1stInF.|Slappey: Member; +3|6983

Crunch1234 wrote:
i only got 384 mb of ram is that bad?

Only if you plan on playing most games, or running several applications at once. Otherwise, no.

2006-02-17 01:57:38

#7

.ACB|_Cutthroat1: No place like 127.0.0.1; +76|6925|Gold Coast,QLD,Australia

i think i just choked on my water, 384mb!

2006-02-17 02:41:29

#8

-_{MoW}_-Assasin: Member; +13|6957|Australia

.ACB|_Cutthroat1 wrote:
i think i just choked on my water, 384mb!

Water Pwnz!!!

2006-02-17 03:26:51

#9

Skruples: Mod Incarnate; +234|6930

Your motherboard probably reduces your speed to 333mhz with 4 sticks in because the 512 sticks are not designed to run at 400mhz. All of the ram in your system has to operate at the same speed, so the bios has to throttle faster ram to meet slower ram specifications. The memory timings on your older ram are probably also a great deal slower than whatever you just bought, so If I were you I wouldn't bother with your old ram. Remember to put your new ram in slots 1 & 3, or your motherboard will not run it in dual channel mode. (I believe this is the case with pretty much all motherboards)

One of these days I might write a RAM guide, though judging from the attention paid to the last guide I wrote for this section I probably wont bother >:\

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