How many sticks to make 2gigs?

ScaryDecoy

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• Jan 14, 2003

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Think I should go with 2 1gb sticks that are samsung

1GB PC2100 DDR Module Unbuffered NonECC, 2.5 Cas Latency

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should I go with 4 sticks of MUSHKIN DDR 512MB PC-2100 - OEM Rated 2-2-2.


It's about the same cost, this memory won't be overclocked, it will be going into a Iwill DP533 motherboard (the new 7505 dual ddr board)

 

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If the motherboard can handle 4 sticks of RAM go for the MUSHKIN DDR 512MB PC-2100.

 

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Do games load or run any faster with 2GB of Ram? Specifically Battle Field 1942? I'm really curious.

Thanks

 

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RAM is like cooling, after a certain point it doesn't really help much anymore but it definetly can't hurt As for the load look into a faster hard drive and/or CD drive, that's probably where your bottleneck is.

--Illah

 

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For a dual machine I highly suggest registered, buffered, and ECC for any module. From what I read from personal experiences, you won't run into memory errors and the system will seem alot smoother.

Yodums

 

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if the price is the same i'd go for the 1 gig sticks, they will hold their value over the long run, also it'll probally be easier with 2 than 4.

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• Jan 16, 2003

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This is gonna be a Iwill DP533 m/b. It doesn't support buffered/registered memory. I don't want the performance hit that ecc brings to the table. I think I am gonna go with Corsair twinx1024-2700ll it will run with the 2-2-2-5 in a pair.

http://www.corsairmicro.com/main/products/specs/twinx1024-2700ll.pdf


I am gonna be running 4 100gb 8mb cache WD's in a raid 0 so I hope the Hard drive isn't the bottleneck.