I want to max out on RAM

[G]

Do all sticks need to be the same brand and speed? I currently have PC2-4300 @ 266MHz.


Newegg says these are compatible. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?submit=ENE&Configurator=MemoryConfigurator&CFG=CFG003Dimension%20E510&DEPA=0)


Can I rip out 2 of the 4 ram sticks and replace them with faster ones, or do I need to replace them all with the same speed? I have 3gb and want to go to 4gb.

[Vietnamese Crippler]

You can mix and match RAM, but they all have to be the same speed if you want max performance.

It's advisable that you use RAM from ONE manufacturer/brand because all RAM is not created equal.

[G]

This is what I'd like to get.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134046

Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)



What do you think?

[G]

Would this really be worth doing for $50. I'm just jumping up 1 gb, but the speeds are faster though.

[Vietnamese Crippler]

Also, learn how to use Google. I found this using the terms "RAM mixing"

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/238202-30-mixing-size-latency-volts

[Vietnamese Crippler]

And for $50, I hardly think it's worth it.

[G]

Google is great and all, but how does it effect my post count?

[Requiem]

I am a big supporter of g-skill.

[El Fangel]

I have not been stupid enough to see if I have extra ram slots, if I do I think an upgrade may be in order.

I heard somewhere that someone has an Aesus (sp?) Motherboard with 8GB of RAM. Fuck you go to the weather channel and you find out what the weather will be like in 2020 with that ish.

[Xero]

In about four years you're going to have 8GB and want more....

[Requiem]

I would like to have 4 right now, but I only have 2. One of the most important parts to having a fast PC, really. The more, the better.

[El Fangel]

I still have that RAM in a box in the closet, I will have to find out the brand name of it, if it will work I could send it to you.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

I have one as a stick broke yesterday. Down to 1gb :(

[Xero]

I've always been at 1gb. :mad:

[Funky Fly]

I got 3 rn, but I could go to 4. Thing is, I don't do any hardcore gaming on this tub, so there's not really much point. I mean, I play Diablo 2 from time to time, but that used to run fine on a pc I had with like 1/4 the power of this one. Like I can run 456789587235 things at once with no slowdown, so it's not even worth it.

[G]

Yeah I was all excited about it cause I went from 512 to 2gb in my laptop, and it made a world of difference. Now I don't really care. It's not like I even game on here anymore.

[Requiem]

Well.. 512 to 2GB is a huge difference no matter if you game or not. lol

For non-gaming though, 2GB is pretty nice. I can pretty much do anything I want with my PC now with 2GB. I game almost exclusively on my PC though, so I'd definitely like to go for 4.

Then again, I'd also like some better cooling to do some overclocking, a bigger HD, a new DVD burner.. etc.

[G]

Yeah, I said that wrong. I was so hyped because of the huge boost on my laptop, that I wanted to max out on my desktop cause I was still in the zone. Now the zone has passed, and I don't care.

[thedamndest]

What does RAM do?

[Vietnamese Crippler]

When you boot up your computer, programs and data that are meant to be used immediately are loaded onto the RAM so your CPU can access that information faster, rather being being read off the hard drive.

RAM can be compared to a person's short-term memory and the hard disk to the long-term memory. The short-term memory focuses on work at hand, but can only keep so many facts in view at one time. If short-term memory fills up, your brain sometimes is able to refresh it from facts stored in long-term memory. A computer also works this way. If RAM fills up, the processor needs to continually go to the hard disk to overlay old data in RAM with new, slowing down the computer's operation. Unlike the hard disk which can become completely full of data so that it won't accept any more, RAM never runs out of memory. It keeps operating, but much more slowly than you may want it to.

- http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci214255,00.html