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blakerwry wrote:You don't think you might be limiting yourself to too little RAM that way? Personally, I'd get a single stick of 512MB Kingston... later you can upgrade to another 512MB stick ... by buying 256MB sticks now you're pretty much guaranteeing that you'll be getting rid of them within a year or so.
CignaXI wrote:blakerwry wrote:You don't think you might be limiting yourself to too little RAM that way? Personally, I'd get a single stick of 512MB Kingston... later you can upgrade to another 512MB stick ... by buying 256MB sticks now you're pretty much guaranteeing that you'll be getting rid of them within a year or so.
from nforcershq:
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Q. How do I set up Dual Channel DDR/TwinBank/DualDDR optimally?
A. In order for DualDDR memory to run at it's optimal speed, you need to have an equal amount of RAM in each channel. Slots 1 and 2 are channel 1, and slot 3 is channel 2. Right now I've got 256MB in slot 2, and 256MB in slot 3. This means 256MB in each channel. If I was to upgrade and wanted to keep full Dual DDR, I would need a 512MB stick, and put it in slot 3, and the 256MB sticks in slots 1 & 2. This would give me 512MB in each channel, and an equal balance. This would give me an optimal Dual DDR setup.
If I were to have, say, 512MB in one channel, and 256MB in the other, only 256MB of the channel with the 512MB stick would be running in Dual DDR, since the channels would not be balanced. The rest of the 512MB stick would run in standard single channel mode, giving below optimal performance.
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So, actually is the same thing, buying two 256 meg sticks or just one 512mb to later buy more sticks. Since 1 gig memories stick have never been cheap (to balance the third channel with the two first 512 mb sticks), I think that 256 sticks are a better option; later I can buy a 512 stick and have 1gb of memory. That is only if you want to run in Dual DDR mode.
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