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XP to AMD64 upgrade - another question.
Sorry if this sounds daft :
I have 3x 256mb pc3200 ddr dimms running dual channel mode. Looking at the manuals for the boards i was going to get based on the nforce 3 250gb ( socket 754 ) or the nforce 3 ultra ( socket 939 ) i can only use 2 dimms if i want to run at ddr400. This will be only 512mb ram. Will this be a major stumbling block compared to the 768 i have now? One of the boards i looked at, the dfi UT lanparty 250gb will let me use 3 dimms but limits the speed to ddr333. So whats best? 512mb ram at ddr400 or 768mb ram at ddr333? Will this negate the advantage of getting a amd64? cheers paul |
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wrote in message ... Sorry if this sounds daft : I have 3x 256mb pc3200 ddr dimms running dual channel mode. Looking at the manuals for the boards i was going to get based on the nforce 3 250gb ( socket 754 ) or the nforce 3 ultra ( socket 939 ) i can only use 2 dimms if i want to run at ddr400. This will be only 512mb ram. Will this be a major stumbling block compared to the 768 i have now? No. Chances are you rarely even use 512MB. So 512MB will be fine. -Dave |
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"Dave C." wrote:
wrote in message ... Sorry if this sounds daft : I have 3x 256mb pc3200 ddr dimms running dual channel mode. Looking at the manuals for the boards i was going to get based on the nforce 3 250gb ( socket 754 ) or the nforce 3 ultra ( socket 939 ) i can only use 2 dimms if i want to run at ddr400. This will be only 512mb ram. Will this be a major stumbling block compared to the 768 i have now? No. Chances are you rarely even use 512MB. So 512MB will be fine. -Dave Twaddle. I easily use 512MB. You will be a lot better off (for most even slightly-hungry applications) with 768MB at DDR333 than 512MB at DDR400. I doubt most people can tell the speed difference between DDR333 and DDR400 even if they were the same capacity. Odie -- RetroData Data Recovery Experts www.retrodata.co.uk |
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Twaddle. I easily use 512MB.
What the heck are you running? It is really hard to get Windows XP to use more than 512MB, even though the operating system itself uses about 56MB. -Dave |
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"Dave C." wrote in message ... Twaddle. I easily use 512MB. What the heck are you running? It is really hard to get Windows XP to use more than 512MB, even though the operating system itself uses about 56MB. -Dave Painkiller uses more than 512MB! Mike. |
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