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"768MB RAM"

I currently have 256, and am upgrading and stuff.

I have a Gigabyte 7VTX motherboard.
Anyway - is it possible for me just to get a 512mb stick (that's compatible, obviously)?

It's just I rarely hear of people saying they have 768mb of RAM - it's always a gig, 512, or 256.

And also - is it worth going for over 512 when I could always just get a 256 stick to make it up to 512?

Cheers.

It is just a feature of motherboards based on the nForce chipset on AMDs and I can't remember what on the P4. If I remember rightly it doubles the width of the data bus to let it access two different sticks simultaneously. May be wrong though.

SBB wrote:
> I'm confused about Dual-Channel ram... can you just put 2x 512mb
> sticks in and it just runs faster because it's some kind of
> motherboard feature, or do you need special RAM, CPU or RAM
> configuration?

You dont need anything special at all, it just makes better use of the memory bandwidth. Or something.

I'm confused about Dual-Channel ram... can you just put 2x 512mb sticks in and it just runs faster because it's some kind of motherboard feature, or do you need special RAM, CPU or RAM configuration?

Hey, as long as you have two free sockets it will work just as well. Besides, chances are when you next need a major upgrade in a few years you wouldn't keep the RAM anyway. As long as it works.

Well, I ordered 2 sticks of 256MB last night.

I was going to get a single 512, but then Chipseh convinced me of the pairing thing, and it being better than a single 512.

But meh.

If you haven't ordered yet it isn't too late.

More RAM is always good. 512 MB is now the minimum in my opinion, with more being better.

DDR is double data rate. So 133 MHz speed gets called DDR 266, which is also known as PC2100. 166 MHz is DDR 333 or PC2700. 200 MHz is DDR 400 or PC3200. It's rare now, but there was 100 MHz, DDR 200 or PC1600 stuff once upon a time.

So find out what you currently have and then just get 512 MB stick of that speed. RAM hasn't needed to be fitted in pairs since the days of the 486, or rare early P4s that used Rambus stuff. Which you don't.

And you couldn't have been here yesterday, NB?

RAAAAHHHHHHHHH.
Meh.

Microchips wrote:
> It would be fine, yes, but as I said, Run DDR in pairs.

Why run it in pairs? The only benefit would be for Dual Channel motherboards, except Zulander hasn't got an nForce board and he already has RAM.

Danke to all who put up with having to explain something to a wall.

At last! You mongrel. I doubt SR will be very happy about this thread, selling quality RAM as they do.