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2X1GB vs. 4X512MB

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govtcheez75

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I have a 3500+ Venice with a DFI NF3 Ultra-D. I would like to upgrade to 2GB, but already have 2X512mb Mushkin PC4400 TCCD's in the sytem. It would cost me lots of money to buy 2X1GB dual channel kit, but I've found a good deal on another set of matching Mushkin TCCD's. I'm assuming that 4X512mb of matching sticks will still give me dual channel? Would I take a huge performance hit? Will this solution be comparable to getting 2X1GB modules?

 
You'll take a performance hit by being forced to run at 2T. It depends on the applications as to how big of a hit, but it made a huge differance for video encoding. I had 4x512mb sticks, now I have 2x1gb sticks of OCZ platinum 2-3-2-5 @DDR400.
 
The poster above seems to be misinformed, or did not read the OP.

With an Athlon 64, it does NOT matter if you are running 1T or 2T in ANY scenario. This was proven in a big thread a little while ago.

There will be NO performance difference between 2X1GB or 4X512.

But I would get 2X1GB because that leaves you with some ram slots free, allowing you to upgrade later.
 
Get the 4 sticks of 512. It's a small hit and when you need 4 gigs of ram you'll problably have a new cpu, mobo.... so it won't matter that you get 4 512 sticks now. Unless money is no object, in which case get the 2 sticks of 1GB and send me you old 512's. ;-)
 
Originally posted by: dguy6789
The poster above seems to be misinformed, or did not read the OP.

With an Athlon 64, it does NOT matter if you are running 1T or 2T in ANY scenario. This was proven in a big thread a little while ago.

There will be NO performance difference between 2X1GB or 4X512.

But I would get 2X1GB because that leaves you with some ram slots free, allowing you to upgrade later.
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QFT, im tired of hearing the 2T crap...if 1T works, great...if you need to run 2T, good too...
 
Originally posted by: govtcheez75
I have a 3500+ Venice with a DFI NF3 Ultra-D. I would like to upgrade to 2GB, but already have 2X512mb Mushkin PC4400 TCCD's in the sytem. It would cost me lots of money to buy 2X1GB dual channel kit, but I've found a good deal on another set of matching Mushkin TCCD's. I'm assuming that 4X512mb of matching sticks will still give me dual channel? Would I take a huge performance hit? Will this solution be comparable to getting 2X1GB modules?
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If you are playing BF2, then yes, either configuration will be the same performance. If you plan on ocing though, forget about 4x512mb sticks, as it will limit your ram overclock significantly.
 
Originally posted by: dguy6789
The poster above seems to be misinformed, or did not read the OP.

With an Athlon 64, it does NOT matter if you are running 1T or 2T in ANY scenario. This was proven in a big thread a little while ago.

There will be NO performance difference between 2X1GB or 4X512.

But I would get 2X1GB because that leaves you with some ram slots free, allowing you to upgrade later.
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I am not misinformed, I am giving information from my own experience. I DID suffer a performance hit by running 2T with encoding video. It didn't affect everything as drasticly but DID have a big impact on encoding.
 
Having to run at 2T should only cause a 1-5% performance hit at the most. However, the looser timings you'd be stuck with by going with two 1GB sticks would probably be the same. I guess it would be about the same, but if you're worried about overclocking headroom...technically, two DIMMs are less strenuous on the system than four.
 
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