Ram upgrade question...

Angelus_Fate · 03-November-03, 08:38 PM

A friend of mine is wanting to add three sticks of 1024's to a 1.2 gig processor...are there any problems that can occure with this?

~Fate~

Maverick · 03-November-03, 08:48 PM

Well you need to make sure the board can handle that much ram to begin with.

Dimazz · 03-November-03, 08:58 PM

and what would you ever need 3gigs of ram for i never even use my 512!!

mabey rendering and dvd ripping and stuff but still not 3 gigs.

and to your original qu just go ahead and put it in nothing can go wrong it just wont boot.

Slider · 03-November-03, 09:23 PM

Don't buy 2 of those gigs of ram, and upgrade that processor and mobo.

lAnonymousl · 03-November-03, 09:34 PM

Problems....no, unless he is planning to run them in dual-channel mode. I don't know what motherboard your friend has but if it does support dual-channel I would suggest installing the RAM in even numbers. Installing three modules will cuase them all to run in single-channel mode and hurt performance more than help. But like I said, this is only if his motherboard supports it.

Coelacanth · 06-November-03, 02:43 AM

3 gigs of RAM is definitely overkill, unless you're running a serious file or application server. Even with Win XP, notable memory hog as it is, running the latest games, you'd be hard-pressed to need more than 1 gig.

BigAkita · 06-November-03, 08:32 AM

Speaking of which, Coel; what OS are you running now?

Coelacanth · 06-November-03, 06:53 PM

Still running good ole Win 98 on two boxes, and Linux on my current project-to-be.

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Angelus_Fate Apex Techie Wannabe	Ram upgrade question... A friend of mine is wanting to add three sticks of 1024's to a 1.2 gig processor...are there any problems that can occure with this? ~Fate~

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03-November-03, 08:48 PM		#2 (permalink)
Maverick Apex Elite Expert Tech	Well you need to make sure the board can handle that much ram to begin with.

03-November-03, 08:58 PM		#3 (permalink)
Dimazz Sk8-Hoe-r	and what would you ever need 3gigs of ram for i never even use my 512!! mabey rendering and dvd ripping and stuff but still not 3 gigs. and to your original qu just go ahead and put it in nothing can go wrong it just wont boot.

03-November-03, 09:23 PM		#4 (permalink)
Slider Ghostrider	Don't buy 2 of those gigs of ram, and upgrade that processor and mobo.

03-November-03, 09:34 PM		#5 (permalink)
lAnonymousl The Who? Hoe	Problems....no, unless he is planning to run them in dual-channel mode. I don't know what motherboard your friend has but if it does support dual-channel I would suggest installing the RAM in even numbers. Installing three modules will cuase them all to run in single-channel mode and hurt performance more than help. But like I said, this is only if his motherboard supports it.

06-November-03, 02:43 AM		#6 (permalink)
Coelacanth Apex Tech God	3 gigs of RAM is definitely overkill, unless you're running a serious file or application server. Even with Win XP, notable memory hog as it is, running the latest games, you'd be hard-pressed to need more than 1 gig.

06-November-03, 08:32 AM		#7 (permalink)
BigAkita n00b-ass reviewer	Speaking of which, Coel; what OS are you running now?

06-November-03, 06:53 PM		#8 (permalink)
Coelacanth Apex Tech God	Still running good ole Win 98 on two boxes, and Linux on my current project-to-be.