I have 4 slots for ram on my system
At the moment slots 1 and 3 are filled with 1 gig sticks of DDR2 667MHz SDRAM (Dual Interleaved)
I came across this sweet deal with an awesome Mail In Rebate on newegg.com:
Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory
I want all 4 sticks of my ram to work for the best performance possible. I don't want one stick bringing down the performance of the other 3. I wouldn't mind purchasing 4 sticks of this same Crucial Ballistix ram if it would give me a better performance increase than 2 of my old kind and 2 of the new. (40 bucks for 4 sticks, not bad at all)
ALSO, would it be better for me to just replace my x2 1gig sticks of DDR2 667 mhz ram with another 2 gigs of a faster type? Im not sure of the computer science behind it, but people tell me adding another gig of ram to 2 gigs will stop allowing the first 2 to work "dual channel", this possibly slowing your system instead of the opposite. If you have 4 gigs, is that the same as 2 dual channel kits, or will they all work independant?
I have also been told that I might want to look at upgrading to DDR3 (which is somewhat costly). How does DDR2 compare to DDR3? price and performance wise
And, does anyone have any idea exactly how much Ram Aoc, Lotro, Crysis, etc uses??
At the moment slots 1 and 3 are filled with 1 gig sticks of DDR2 667MHz SDRAM (Dual Interleaved)
I came across this sweet deal with an awesome Mail In Rebate on newegg.com:
Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory
I want all 4 sticks of my ram to work for the best performance possible. I don't want one stick bringing down the performance of the other 3. I wouldn't mind purchasing 4 sticks of this same Crucial Ballistix ram if it would give me a better performance increase than 2 of my old kind and 2 of the new. (40 bucks for 4 sticks, not bad at all)
ALSO, would it be better for me to just replace my x2 1gig sticks of DDR2 667 mhz ram with another 2 gigs of a faster type? Im not sure of the computer science behind it, but people tell me adding another gig of ram to 2 gigs will stop allowing the first 2 to work "dual channel", this possibly slowing your system instead of the opposite. If you have 4 gigs, is that the same as 2 dual channel kits, or will they all work independant?
I have also been told that I might want to look at upgrading to DDR3 (which is somewhat costly). How does DDR2 compare to DDR3? price and performance wise
And, does anyone have any idea exactly how much Ram Aoc, Lotro, Crysis, etc uses??