mixing ram............

Lyquid Kill · 24-January-04, 11:34 PM

ok what i am wondering is what would give me the best performance as far as ram. i have an Abit NF7 mobo that supports dual channel. it has 3 ram dimms and so far i have 1 stick of kingston 512 3200. i am going to be getting an additional gig of ram in the form of 2X512's. from what im told dual channel is only supported on the first 2 ram dimms...hence dual channel and not tripple i suppose. anyhow..my question is: would i be getting better performance running 2 sticks of corsair and the kingston in the 3rd dimm for a grand total of 1.5GB......OR.....would i be better off running dual channel with ONLY the 2 sticks of corsair for a total of 1GB? AHHHHHH!!!! please help,
thanks,
lyquid

biohazardpc · 24-January-04, 11:39 PM

You only bennifet from duel channel if that is all you are running.. The third dim will throw it off.. Also most mobos only support up to 1 gig of ddr400 ram. Something else to look at..

neotheducky · 24-January-04, 11:42 PM

You can run 3 sticks of ddr as long as you have have 2 sticks of the same size and the last stick twice as big as the other two sticks. Then you would put the 2 of the same size in one channel and the 3rd large stick in the remaining channel. It will still give you dual channel.

24-January-04, 11:34 PM		#1 (permalink)
Lyquid Kill Fab - Hoe - cator	mixing ram............ ok what i am wondering is what would give me the best performance as far as ram. i have an Abit NF7 mobo that supports dual channel. it has 3 ram dimms and so far i have 1 stick of kingston 512 3200. i am going to be getting an additional gig of ram in the form of 2X512's. from what im told dual channel is only supported on the first 2 ram dimms...hence dual channel and not tripple i suppose. anyhow..my question is: would i be getting better performance running 2 sticks of corsair and the kingston in the 3rd dimm for a grand total of 1.5GB......OR.....would i be better off running dual channel with ONLY the 2 sticks of corsair for a total of 1GB? AHHHHHH!!!! please help, thanks, lyquid

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24-January-04, 11:39 PM		#2 (permalink)
biohazardpc H.A.L.O.-Hoe	You only bennifet from duel channel if that is all you are running.. The third dim will throw it off.. Also most mobos only support up to 1 gig of ddr400 ram. Something else to look at..

24-January-04, 11:42 PM		#3 (permalink)
neotheducky Rubber Duck-Hoe	You can run 3 sticks of ddr as long as you have have 2 sticks of the same size and the last stick twice as big as the other two sticks. Then you would put the 2 of the same size in one channel and the 3rd large stick in the remaining channel. It will still give you dual channel.