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04-23-10, 10:23 AM #11
Re: Question about RAM
Phyre; I dont know how much any of that is right.
First off I have never heard filling all your memory banks will bring better performance, in fact I would go so far as to bet that everything else being equal filling all your banks will be slower vs just using a single bigger stick, BUT any difference is likely so small as to be basically unmeasurable to humans.
And you do NOT have to have 2 sticks of dual channel memory, the motherboard will figure it out if you put in a single and will flip back to (or it can be done manually in the bios) single channel mode. And while there is a measurable difference between dual and single channel its a very minor difference, usually in the low single digit Frames Per Second in games.
I do love Corsair, and have become a GSkill fan, but I have not had good luck with Kingston and have read enough negative about them to avoid the brand.
Kanati; its alright, I have overheard the boozo at best buys telling someone something like that awhile back, it seems to be a semi-widespread misconception.
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04-23-10, 11:19 AM #12Re: Question about RAM
You get the benefits of multi-channel by placing a DIMM in each channel. You will get lower performance (10-25% depending on the chipset) if you take a single 4G stick vs two 2G sticks. That being said, some chipsets will actually perform SLOWER if you use all available slots (Some AMD chipsets, will run 1 DIMM per channel at 1066 and 2 DIMMS per channel at 800 for example.)
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04-23-10, 11:20 AM #13
Re: Question about RAM
Originally Posted by Mcstrange
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04-24-10, 03:41 AM #14
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You'll have to excuse me for my newbie-ness, but I do not know the type of Mother Board it is. I believe it to be a AMD of some sort, but I don't know for certain. I bought this computer used from a Local LAN center when it shut down, because I needed a gaming computer, and their computers were pretty powerful. I've had it for a year or more...
From what I can tell, it has 4 slots for RAM, and I currently have 2 1gb sticks in there. I was thinking of just straight up replacing them with 2gb Ram sticks, but I wanted to get some advice first. I have no idea how old the sticks are, or if they're burning out... But I figure it might help with a small problem I get when I join games. I sometimes take a long time to load maps on pretty much all online games, and then have this rather annoying "stutter" at the beginning of the map for about 10 seconds or so. Sound is just repeating over and over, and I'm visually frozen until the stutter stops.
And so far you guys are more or less in agreement about G-Skill being one of the better brands. I'll check them out, and then go with another company and see how things go.
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04-24-10, 08:43 AM #15
Re: Question about RAM
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
DL and 'verify' your pc. Post the link and it'll help bigtime.
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04-24-10, 01:08 PM #17
Re: Question about RAM
My 2 isk.
check your mobo/Os specs. if its dual channel thats the mode youll want to run. this means only two stix. you cant run dual channel with 4 stix. The only thing I thing running four stix would be dual channel is seer capacity.
There tons of infomation on the net about dual channel vs single channel adressing.
..k you have a spoon moving sugar from a pile to your coffee. you can use one spoon easy, but if you use two hands(dual channel) you can move twice as much. Now if there is four spoons on the table with two arms you only able to use 1 or two at a time. having more spoons is not faster nor slower its only allows you to cue more sugar for you to move.
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04-26-10, 03:59 PM #18
Re: Question about RAM
Originally Posted by Mcstrange
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04-26-10, 04:02 PM #19
Re: Question about RAM
Originally Posted by Phyrelight
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04-28-10, 03:17 AM #20
Re: Question about RAM
Sorry this took so long to get to, kinda spaced on it, but here is the link
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1154828
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