Re: Best memory configuration
- From: "Ralph Wade Phillips" <ralphp@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:07:49 -0600
Howdy!
"Lansbury" <lansbury@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I tried to upgrade my AMD64 3400 system from 1Gb of DDR400 memory to 2Gb.
I
> then discovered after some research on Google why adding an extra DDR400
> memory stick caused the instability problems I was now experiencing.
>
> So far two ways around the problems of instability caused by the extra
chip
> seem to be successful.
>
> 1) Put in a 3rd 1gb chip which results in the memory speed dropping to the
> equivalent of a DDR266, or
>
> 2) Setting the memory speed for 2 x 1GB chips to DDR333
>
> I wanted the extra memory for editing in Photoshop and video, so from a
> performance point of view which of the options above is best.
One thing to keep firmly in mind - if you don't have enough real
RAM, when it swaps to the HD, it becomes basically DDR.001 speed ...
So DDR266 for 3G, if you're using it, is better than 2G of DDR400
that swaps 1G to HD.
"But how do I tell?" Presuming XP, open up the Task Manager, select
the Performance Tab, and look at the bottom right corner - see what the
"Peak" and "Total" commit values are. If they exceed how much RAM you do
have, then you need more. If they don't, you don't, and I'd stay at 2G
DDR333 instead of 3G DDR266 B)
RwP
.
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