HP Debranded AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core 4200+ 1GB 250GB DVDRW

[OneStepsAhead]

Originally posted by: GeezerMan
These days, the ram alone is worth that....almost...

One gigabyte of PC3200 RAM of unknown providence, "almost worth" $450?

What you been smokin'?

Note that it does not come with Windows, or driver disk, or burning software, or DVD player software.

You can but a NEW, IN-THE-BOX, GUARANTEED Dell for less than this.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey

Originally posted by: brikis98

what about 4 sticks (4x512mb) versus 2 sticks (2x1gb)?

two sticks are better than four. but only marginally so... at least on socket 939.

When using high quality RAM, the difference is often 10-20% (synthetic RAM benchmarks) in favour of 2 sticks over four. This is in part because it's generally harder to overclock 4 sticks as high as 2, but the main performance killer for 4 sticks is that on every S939 board, you need to run 4 sticks at 2T command rate, whereas any good brand DDR will run at 1T. In terms of actual system performance it would probably only equate to 1-2% though.


So to answer your question, 2 sticks are the best configuration. They give you dual channel. There is no "quad channel" on mainstream boards so you get no advantage to having 4 sticks and indeed they run at slower timings.

 

[imported_OrSin]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey

Originally posted by: brikis98

what about 4 sticks (4x512mb) versus 2 sticks (2x1gb)?

two sticks are better than four. but only marginally so... at least on socket 939.

When using high quality RAM, the difference is often 10-20% (synthetic RAM benchmarks) in favour of 2 sticks over four. This is in part because it's generally harder to overclock 4 sticks as high as 2, but the main performance killer for 4 sticks is that on every S939 board, you need to run 4 sticks at 2T command rate, whereas any good brand DDR will run at 1T. In terms of actual system performance it would probably only equate to 1-2% though.


So to answer your question, 2 sticks are the best configuration. They give you dual channel. There is no "quad channel" on mainstream boards so you get no advantage to having 4 sticks and indeed they run at slower timings.

Just so people understand 2 sticks are much better then 1, but 4 sticks is only slightly (1-2%) worste then 4. Thier was time when everyone thought 4 sticks really kicked you system. But its not true. I was able to OC my Opt144 to the same level with 4 as with 2.
But thats not always true for everyone. So unless your doing some crazy OC 4 works out ok.

 

[imported_OrSin]

Just it in today. 2 sticks of 512 infineon ram.
I see no TV tuner card. IT does have composite and s-video out as well as Optical audio.
I will tell more as start configuring it.