RAM timings is just the technical side of things. Personally one should not worry much about it as the performance benefits from better timing is very very small. To get better timings equates to spending more. The timing talk is also related to overclocking, something that I doubt you'll be doing (unless corrected otherwise). Usually people who tend to overclock their CPU would have some form of knowledge about RAM timings. So it kinda complements each other.mtm87tx wrote:
Im about to buy 2x1gb sticks of ram for my computer what is the best for the money? what brands are good and is there certain ones not compatible with my mobo?
i have a asus P4P800 now and im upgrading to a PCI-E board.
please give links! what is all this talk about timing and whats the best? im not knowledgable about ram
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Not to mention that 4 sticks will actually cause dual channel to slow down.Mr.Pieeater wrote:
I bought 4 Gigs of Corsair from www.newegg.com when I built my computer 3 months ago. They were about $90 a stick, it works great! You probably only need 2 Gigs if you are interested only in BF2 though.
So is it better to run 2 x 1Gb, or 4 x 1Gb? Does the extra capacity make up for any slowing down?unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Not to mention that 4 sticks will actually cause dual channel to slow down.Mr.Pieeater wrote:
I bought 4 Gigs of Corsair from www.newegg.com when I built my computer 3 months ago. They were about $90 a stick, it works great! You probably only need 2 Gigs if you are interested only in BF2 though.
The only way I'd go for 4 GB is if I could find a pair of 2 GB sticks that had timings as low as 2-3-2-6, or if I could find a motherboard that was able to run four sticks at full speed. I like lots of memory, but I also recognize that speed, at times, can be better than capacity...at least in the world of gaming. As it is right now, though, you'll be hard-pressed to find 2 GB sticks that aren't registered ECC.Teamsreth wrote:
So is it better to run 2 x 1Gb, or 4 x 1Gb? Does the extra capacity make up for any slowing down?unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Not to mention that 4 sticks will actually cause dual channel to slow down.Mr.Pieeater wrote:
I bought 4 Gigs of Corsair from www.newegg.com when I built my computer 3 months ago. They were about $90 a stick, it works great! You probably only need 2 Gigs if you are interested only in BF2 though.
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There is some confusion as to whether XP Pro can detect more than XP Home, but I've never tried to put any more than 2GB in any of these systems. XP Pro 64 will detect more than 2GB, but Wow64 emulator does not guarantee that you can use your older apps.dh124289 wrote:
Is there an upper limit to the amount of RAM that windows XP can interpret/use?
I have 3 x DIMMs in my machine, 2 x 1GB & 1 x 512MB.
My mobo detects the full 2.5GB of RAM at startup but XP says I only have 2GB.
However I found a cool memory monitoring program called maxmem which runs in the background, and has a wee icon in the systray with a graph of available RAM. This always shows as 100%, unless I'm playing BF2 or using video editing software, in which case it dips to 70-80%.
So it looks to me as if XP can use the full RAM in my system but can't list it correctly if you know what I mean. But I could be wrong..
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