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Re: RAM

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:11 am
by Tacks
runamonk wrote:
Mindia wrote:I have 1gb of Ram right now. I'm also playing EQ2 regularly. I was thinking about buying another gig of ram to boost performance. My question is... Is 2gb of Ram going to make a noticeable performance improvement, or should I just stick with the 1 gig I have?

I have 2 512mb sticks of Mushkin DDR333 PC2700 (level 2) right now.


If jesus wanted you to have more ram he would have put it your PC for you.


lolz

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:54 pm
by Donnel
Give us a link to your MB

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:58 pm
by Narrock
Donnel wrote:Give us a link to your MB


http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Pr ... (Rev%202.x).htm

Also, I don't understand how a 4 dimm slot mobo caps at 3gb's of ram. Wouldn't 4 slots = either 2 or 4 gigs of ram max? Seems like for a 3gb cap it would only have 3 slots.

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:01 am
by runamonk
Mindia wrote:
Donnel wrote:Give us a link to your MB


http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Pr ... (Rev%202.x).htm

Also, I don't understand how a 4 dimm slot mobo caps at 3gb's of ram. Wouldn't 4 slots = either 2 or 4 gigs of ram max? Seems like for a 3gb cap it would only have 3 slots.


Some motherboards will only support certain configurations of dimms in certain slots. This is usually outlined in the manual for the board.

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:17 am
by Tossica
Look at page 19 of your manual. All compatible memory configurations are listed there. If all 4 of your memory sticks are double sided, it looks like you are hosed. You may be able to put in 3 double sided sticks using slot 1,2 and 3.

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:57 pm
by Narrock
yup, they're all double sided lol. Hello return counter... :-x

And I've never even heard of "single sided" or "double sided" RAM. One of my friends has 4 512mb sticks of pc3500 plugged in and they are working just fine, and they are identical to each other.