How Many Sticks of Ram for Granite Bay?

[Nick63]

Do you have to use at least two sticks of ram in Granite Bay motherboards?
Nick

 

[bgeh]

you can use a stick of ram
but i don't recommend it
there will be a serious performance hit
therefore i recommend installing ram in pairs

 

[Nick63]

So, would you say 2x256mb would be about right for the general user?
Nick

 

[cmdrdredd]

you got it

 

[bgeh]

Originally posted by: Nick63
So, would you say 2x256mb would be about right for the general user?
Nick

yes, that would be just about right
unless you do video editing

 

[MithShrike]

Only wishes he could have two sticks of RAM... :'(

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: Mith
Only wishes he could have two sticks of RAM... :'(

PII 350 @ 416
256 MB PC100
10.3 GB HDD
Radeon 7200 PCI
Yamaha DS-XG Mixer PCI
10/100 Realtek 8139 NIC

dude ~ youre wishing for whole lot more then that

 

[Nick63]

Thanks for the feedback.
Nick

 

[Elvis2]

dude ~ youre wishing for whole lot more then that

I guess I jumped the gun on this Granite Bay deal. I just sold the 1 512mg stick of XMS3200C2 I had in this Gigabyte 8SG667 and bought two 256mg sticks of the same XMS3200C2. Now that I have to wait awhile on that Gigabyte 8INXP, I find that this 8SG667 is very unstable with two dimms @ 400mhz.
I tried moving them to different slots with out any luck. Just updated to the new F4 bios, same problem. If I throttle back to 356mhz, everythings fine so the choice is, if I want to run @400mhz, I'll have to do it with 256mgs or if I want 512mgs, to run at 356mhz. No big deal I guess...