hamburgbenni Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Hello everyone ! First of all, please excuse my bad english, but since i do not know, where else i could go, i am using this option. I know you probably read this a lot and that i should rather use the "search option" but it's a little bit hard for a foreign man :sigh!: I am currently using 1 gig of ram (2x512 Twinx 3200LL) and im looking forward to upgrade to 2 gigs. I do not have the money to buy a new set of 2x1024 rams. Instead, i wanted to buy the exact pair again (already used, but cheap), which means i would use 4x512 Twinx 3200LL on my Asus p4c 800 e-deluxe. Referring to the MB's Memory-controller - would that be a problem ? Im not really into hardware and i'm reading a lot of things which confuse me. Would i loose performance because the Memory-controller is lowering my ram settings when using 4x512 or would i - over all - benefit from my planned upgrade ? Thanks a lot in advance ! hamburgbenni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamburgbenni Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 Does no one has any idea ? :[pouts: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoxxy Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 4 dimms causes overclocking problems on most motherboards. It is harder for the memory controller to keep that amount of memory in check. Your best bet is to sell those dimms and save until you are able to purchase 2x 1 gig sticks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamburgbenni Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 Thanks for your reply ! I do not want to overclock - the only thing i wanted to know is, whether the performance increase of the double amount of ram would overweight the lowered settings :biggrin: Thanks in advance ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoxxy Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Performance loss would be similiar to adding more memory. Depending on which application you will use. Please list some examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamburgbenni Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 The applications which would need most of my memory would be games - im not using programs which need that much memory... Would COD2 be a good example ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekT Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 If you are not overclocking then the only real issue will be that you will lose some memory bandwidth as the Northbridge memory controller has to work harder on memory access and thus the speed needs to drop. You have the 875 Canterwood chipset which is a very robust and able one and should deal with this very well. Very likely you would have to drop from 400Mhz to 333Mhz but this is very doable on that board. I used to have that board and tested it with 4 DIMMS populated with 512MB strips. Mind you there is never a guarantee when matching DRAM, and sometimes one board will do what another board (of the same make and model) will not so it is all somewhat of a dice throw. Good luck if you go this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamburgbenni Posted January 19, 2007 Author Share Posted January 19, 2007 First of all, thanks a lot for all your answers ! I guess i should give it a shot (Hopefully the correct expression for an "attempt") an then let you know, whether i succeeded. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 25, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 25, 2007 How are you making out with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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