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Upgrading RAM (pg. 2)
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| chach |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
huh? |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| haha. im retarded; i use firefox with text size enlarged, and the wrong values were coming up for components. some ram gets quite expensive when it gets older and goes out of production, i thought this might be a case of that. but no, im retarded. |
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| Andryuha |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
huh? |
Is that Fedor, pounding Babalu in your sig? |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Andryuha
Is that Fedor, pounding Babalu in your sig? |
its fedor pounding cro-cop in my avatar :D
when fedor fought babalu they couldn't punch to the face on the ground :( and babalu was doing well. |
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| smallSHEEP |
I wouldn't listen to Cloudburst regarding the need for 2 memory sticks. Running the memory in dual channel probably woun't result in a performance boost you'll be able to detect. However there could be stability problems if you don't used matched pairs.
Your best best would be to buy a single 1GB stick of generic DDR RAM and put that in the slot where your 256 stick is currently located, then move that stick to the first free DIMM slot on your motherboard. You might find that PC3200 is easier to get hold of than PC2700 and this should work fine, you can always run memory slower than it's rated speed.
Also, the reason you currently have 224MB RAM displayed is because your graphics adaptor (probably build into the motherboard) is taking 32MB for itself. |
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| Andryuha |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
its fedor pounding cro-cop in my avatar :D
when fedor fought babalu they couldn't punch to the face on the ground :( and babalu was doing well. |
i should have known. |
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| tubularbills |
YOU GOTTA GET MORE RAM
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
YOU GOTTA GET MORE RAM
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terrible. |
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| gehzumteufel |
as mentioned installing in pairs is not true. and the whole thing about matched pairs has no effect either. its only good when overclocking for stability issues related to quality control and having similar matched performing pairs.
cloud: this isn't old ass simm memory (might as well lump rambus in there too. rambus is basically a simm on sterroids anyways) so no need for pairs. read up. also dual channel is the only way it should be installed in pairs but only if your going to take advantage of it. something he can't do as his chipset iirc is too old. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| the only difference in "matched pairs" is that the two sticks have been tested together. its exactly the same ram quality as non matched pairs. |
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| Plump Funk |
I also want to upgrade my RAM but I have a laptop and not sure if my laptop can support dual or not, and is RAM different for a laptop?
Here are my specs:
Processor 1 (ID = 0)
Number of cores: 1
Number of threads: 2 (max 2)
Name: Intel Pentium 4 532
Codename: Prescott
Specification: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz
Package: Socket 478 mPGA (platform ID = 3h)
CPUID: F.4.1
Extended CPUID: F.4
Core Stepping: E0
Technology: 90 nm
Core Speed: 3066.8 MHz (23.0 x 133.3 MHz)
Rated Bus speed: :533.4 MHz
Stock frequency: :3066 MHz
Instructions sets: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3
L1 Data cache: 16 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size:
Trace cache: 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache: 1024 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size:
FID/VID Control: yes
FID range: 14.0x - 23.0x
VID range: 1.116 V - 1.356 V
Motherboard: TOSHIBA EEQ00/EFQ00
Chipset: ATI RS300/RS300m
Southbridge: ATI SB200
Memory: DDR
Module Size: 512 MBytes
Max Bandwidth: PC2700(166 MHz)
Attributes
Number of banks: 2
Data width: 64 bits
Correction: None
Registered: no
Buffered: no
Nominal Voltage: 2.50 Volts
EPP: no
XMP: no |
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