2gb + 1gb

[KimOlav]

Hello

 

Right now I have TWINX2048-3200C2 installed on my machine. I was thinking about getting even more ram, but Im not too good with these things, so I thought I would ask you guys first.

If I get a set of TWINX1024-3200C2, how will that affect my system? Will it improve, or will it by some magical way be worse?

I have four slots for ram, and a max of 4GB.

[RJLeong65]

Hello

 

Right now I have TWINX2048-3200C2 installed on my machine. I was thinking about getting even more ram, but Im not too good with these things, so I thought I would ask you guys first.

If I get a set of TWINX1024-3200C2, how will that affect my system? Will it improve, or will it by some magical way be worse?

I have four slots for ram, and a max of 4GB.

 

Looking at your system configuration, you are already at optimal performance levels. Unfortunately, at this point 512MB 3200C2 sticks will not work together with their 1GB 3200C2 mates because they use completely different IC chips (remember, all of Corsair's 512MB and larger XMS/TWINX series DDR1 sticks are double-sided) -- and the intermixture of different IC chips will likely result in major problems down the road (if your system can even POST at all with such mixed modules).

 

In addition, with your current TWINX2048-3200C2 kit, you already have four banks of memory (since all of those modules are double-sided). But when you exceed four banks of installed memory, the loading on the memory controller will increase significantly. (DDR400 memory controllers work best with only four banks of memory -- but the use of four double-sided sticks will result in a whopping eight banks of memory installed, which is too many for a DDR400 memory controller to handle at the rated speed.) As a result, if you use four double-sided sticks, you will be forced to use a command rate setting of 2T instead of 1T (which will hurt performance some), and (depending on your CPU's memory controller) you may be forced to drop your system's memory speed to 166MHz/DDR333/PC2700 instead of the normal 200MHz/DDR400/PC3200 speed (which will hurt performance some more).