Which is better? I have heard that dual channel ram is faster, however my motherboard only has two ram slots, and one is occupied by a 512 stick of DDR. Would it be faster to get a 1gb stick or fill both with a dual channel 1gb of two 512s?

9/25/2005 8:55:47 PM

two 512's

9/25/2005 9:01:34 PM

sell the 512 and get two 1gb sticks

9/25/2005 9:02:13 PM

Sell the two 1gb, and get 9 4gb sticks

9/25/2005 9:09:06 PM

buy an e-machines

9/25/2005 9:21:03 PM

^

Good point

9/25/2005 9:44:39 PM

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"sell the 512 and get two 1gb sticks"

9/25/2005 9:47:54 PM

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"Sell the two 1gb, and get 9 4gb sticks"

9/25/2005 10:45:37 PM

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"buy an e-machines"

9/25/2005 11:39:16 PM

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"^ Good point"

9/25/2005 11:41:35 PM

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"Which is better? I have heard that dual channel ram is faster, however my motherboard only has two ram slots, and one is occupied by a 512 stick of DDR. Would it be faster to get a 1gb stick or fill both with a dual channel 1gb of two 512s?"

9/26/2005 3:37:13 AM

what kind of processor do you have?

9/26/2005 12:15:11 PM

From experience (benchmark tests)... dual channel is about 1%-3% better performance... so, it all depends on if 1%-3% is all that big of a deal to you.

9/26/2005 12:25:39 PM

you have a 754 athlon, you will see no benefit from dual channel matched dimms

9/26/2005 1:39:45 PM

because 754 doesnt even have dual channel

9/26/2005 7:59:55 PM

yeah, the chipset may support dual channel, but the memory controller isn't dual channel. the performance difference seen from arranging memory in a dual channel array will not surpass the performance increase of an added half gig of ram.

9/26/2005 8:07:16 PM

So I should just go for a 1 gig stick to addon?

btw, I have an Asus KV8 Pro, and it's a 754 board.

9/26/2005 8:30:13 PM

go for 1.5gb

9/26/2005 8:36:09 PM