ram strategy

[TheScore]

alright im building my first comp and deciding wat ram to get
i will either

1) get 2 sticks of good 256 ram (because 2 is better than one 512, right?)

2)get one stick of 512 and upgrade too two sticks of 512 later

 

[True_Orb]

I would imagine that your mobo has 3 slots for RAM, so you could always get 2 sticks of 256 and one stick of 512 for the third slot.

 

[XT]

i think he is trying to go with duel channel enabled in the ddr ram. I would go with 512mb stick and upgrade later because you wont be missing the 10% performance boost to much and wehn you get it it still wont do to much.

 

[JimShorts]

go with one stick of 512

 

[mousepad]

I think it's a better idea to go dual. Although, I am a bit curious to know if putting in one stick of 512 would slow the dual down any. Would it?

 

[LV38_Eagle]

@ mousepad, with three sticks installed, you still get dual channel performance on the matched pair, but the single stick will be running as a standard DDR.

 

[blake67t]

With the single 512, later getting another one, this will run faster than if you had the two 256 and then a single 512,

GET THE SINGLE 512 you will regret not in the future.

Blake

 

[cell567]

yea in the long run go with a good stick of 512 ram and later stick another 512 one to go at better speed.

 

[TheScore]

alright cool im gonna buy one stick of 512 now and then another one later

now, i need to know compatibility issues like the speed and wat kinda of ram its is (will these factors effect compatibility?)

 

[TheScore]

Asus A7n8x-x model mobro