Best Performance for RAM?

[CLohre]

Hello,
I am asking for help in determining what would be my best course of action for my RAM situation. As is I have a Gigabyte of Ram.. consisting of 2x512 chips, 1 512 PC3200 and 1 512 PC2700. They are running Dual-Channel at 1t.

I am getting replacement ram chips. A set of 2x512 PC3200 Dual-Channel chips, I also have lying around 2x256 Dual Channel PC3200 Chips. My motherboard is a MSI K8N Neo2-F which has four DualChannel RAM Slots. My question is will I get better performance from the 1Gb 2x512 of PC3200 chips running at 1T or Running 1.5Gb's Of RAM at 2t with the four chips runnig Dual channel together.

*1234 Represent the 4 RAM Slots* as shown in my Mobo manual...

Ex: (1)512CHIP (2)256CHIP (3)512CHIP (4)256CHIP or
(1)512CHIP (2)EMPTY (3)512CHIP (4)EMPTY

 

[Some1ne]

(1)512CHIP (2)EMPTY (3)512CHIP (4)EMPTY

 

[CLohre]

So I am guessing that I will get better performance by a long shot with 1t setting's and just 1Gig than having 1.5? I am correct by assuming so?

 

[Some1ne]

Yes, few things will actually use that extra 512 MB (and even the things that do use it won't see a huge benefit), but just about anything will benefit at least slightly from the faster command rate.