coderunknown
Retired Forum Mod
^^ whats the system's use? 4Gb is a overkill for normal usage. 6-8Gb will be too much.
abhijangda
Padawan
there is no need of 6 or 8 GB RAM, 4 GB is more than enough for the stuffs u want to do. u will not see any big change in ur computers performance after upgrading. upgrade ur graphics card rather. dont waste ur valuable money.
pegasus
Journeyman
bobby sir,
If you are using 64-bit OS, then you will benefit from more RAM i think.
As said earlier by others, adding one more stick will make the three 2GB sticks run in single channel, thus sacrificing RAM speed a bit.
But the type of work you have mentioned, does benefit from more RAM afaik.
Do you have DDR2 667 or DDR2 800?
True/noticeable performance gains with DDR2 RAM began from the 800Mhz sticks iirc.
If you have DDR2 667 sticks, the newer DDR2 800 stick/s will run at 667Mhz too.
You may add 2 sticks of 2 GB to make it 8GB overall and it will run in dual channel, though only in 2T.
If you are using 64-bit OS, then you will benefit from more RAM i think.
As said earlier by others, adding one more stick will make the three 2GB sticks run in single channel, thus sacrificing RAM speed a bit.
But the type of work you have mentioned, does benefit from more RAM afaik.
Do you have DDR2 667 or DDR2 800?
True/noticeable performance gains with DDR2 RAM began from the 800Mhz sticks iirc.
If you have DDR2 667 sticks, the newer DDR2 800 stick/s will run at 667Mhz too.
You may add 2 sticks of 2 GB to make it 8GB overall and it will run in dual channel, though only in 2T.
I am sorry but are you into animation, video editing, 3D rendering or any related profession?
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Deleted member 26636
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if you are an animation student & want to render high detailed frames, believe me at some point even 4-6gb will seem less...rendering is highly dependant on RAM.
coderunknown
Retired Forum Mod
adding one more stick will make the three 2GB sticks run in single channel, thus sacrificing RAM speed a bit.
But the type of work you have mentioned, does benefit from more RAM afaik.
actually the first 2 stick will run in Dual ch. the third stick in single channel. but this can bring unexpected problems & also performance going take a hit.
pegasus
Journeyman
Can you please try out what you say and confirm it in CPU-Z?
Coz if it is what you say, i will give myself a hard whack on my head and need to clear out the old stuff and input some fresh and correct info.
From what i remember, especially from the older motherboards, loosely put it went something like
- an even number of RAM sticks of same capacity (preferably identical/matched), in the appropriate slots, should work in dual channel
- an even number of sticks, with different capacity on any stick, will run in single channel
- an odd number of RAM sticks, irrespective of capacity of each stick will always work in single channel.
In the following diagram, the top section indicates 'dual channel' and the lower one indicates 'single channel' scenario.
*img8.imageshack.us/img8/446/singlevsdualchanneldiag.jpg
Source: *www.kingston.com/newtech/MKF_520DDRwhitepaper.pdf
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coderunknown
Retired Forum Mod
i have only a pair of ram so its not possible for now (until a friend/neighbor gets a DD3 system).
thanks a lot for clearing out my mistakes regarding ram
actually i read about it in NewEgg (user comment on Asus 870X board or so) & also somewhere else so i thought that its possible (to have dual ch & single ch memory at same time).
pegasus
Journeyman
Please do try and search and post those links here.
We never know if we miss something by mistake.