Rdram

[Burning Phoenix]

In building my new Northwood system i'd like to know which is better.
Filling all 4 RDRAM slots with 64 meg a piece or 2 slots at 128 meg a piece.

 

[jazztrumpet216]

Prob. two slots with 128 meg sticks. Less sticks means less possibility of one of them holding you back from a high overclock. Also, it's less load on the ram controller.

 

[MospeadasDark]

Two slot definately. You'd have less chance of all 4 sticks not being able to stay in sync at higher FSB's. That's also a reason why when you see people w/ outrageous 166+FSB's they generally don't have more than 256MB of ram.

With that said, I could get a max of 118mhz FSB w/ all 4 slots filled. I bet just 2 slots could hit 133mhz as long as u use quality ram. I haven't tried as I can't find my 2nd null ram slot. Also I like having a gig of ram and turning off my swap=)