Recent content by Plekto

With even 4 GB, your best bet would be to run 2 as physical and 2 as a ramdisk. Why 2 and 2? Windows won't disable the swapfile no matter what you do, and you need more than 1GB due to formatting losses. This leaves about 800megs for temp files as well for whatever you are running. this way...

Also remember that the difference between fast memory - say, CAS 2 DDR 400 and CAS4 DDR2-800 are very very tiny. The memory is almost always waiting on the CPU or FSB and so while the synthetic bandwidth tests may show some difference running applications that in real life would only be...

I'd recommend Mushkin and Crucial because their posted specs are pretty much guaranteed what it will do, even if it's not as impressive in the ads as the others(read: they lie, welcome to marketing - lol) You'll want to get a level or two faster memory and underclock it. This puts less...

Thanks. I'll get one of the two. The problem is that the board only OCs stable at 1:1 memory to FSB ratios, so that means underclocking whatever I get to 533mhz and then ramping the FSB up. So far my plan is: - Ballistix or Mushkin memory(not bothering with the rebate - I'll be an old...

EDIT - I did some more research and my question has changed. I have an AsRock 4CoreDual Sata2 MB and the thing is picky about overclocking. I'd like to get memory like this: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2797&p=18 The Mushkin appears to do 3-3-3-8 timings at 1.8V with a...