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- Apr 6, 2002
i built my first pc 6 months ago now, and i was thinking about upgrading ram before i go back to school. I've been reading thru the forum to see if i could find answers to any of teh uestions i had but haven't found anything really. I'm running 256 pc2100 basic mushkin ddr right now with my p4 [email protected] on asus p4b266 motherboard. of course i want to get more performance but i don't want to just assume that getting the fastest and biggest stick i can will do the best for me. i know that mushkin has pc2100 basic, special, and hi perf. looking thru their pages i can't really see a difference between any of them. when i originally purchased my memory in january, i asked the guy on the phone what he thought and all i can remember him saying is that there really isn't much difference between them. i noticed another thread talking about the frequencies, and it made me wonder if i moved up to pc2700, would I beable to utilize all the speed? I think i have my pc running at a fsb of 111. I have been able to overclock more but this is the most stable. do u think that my pc2100 ram might have been causing the instability i got by running at a higher fsb? so then pc2700 would fix that? also i was thinking of upgrading from win2k to winxp pro this weekend because for some odd reason i am missing the "advanced" tab where i should beable to set my dvd drive to DMA. that should be another thread all itself and i won't get in to it here.. but will moving up to 512mb ram improve performance in xp? i've seen other threads that have conflicting views so i guess asking the question here might be useless.
any way, that should be enough to keep u guys busy...hehe
any way, that should be enough to keep u guys busy...hehe