probs watching movies on my projector as 2ndary monitor

[robphelan]

I quickly opened my case before work this morning and pulled out a stick.

it's 1Gb PC5400.

I was going to buy another 2 x 1gb sticks of DDR667 and noticed that the PC5300 were cheaper (priced at newegg).

Anyone know if I can run 2 x 1GB PC5400 + 2 x 1Gb PC5300 together?

I've read that they're basically the same, (675MHz vs 667MHx), but hate to order the wrong speed and be sorry for it later.

thanks,
rp.

 

[DSF]

All your sticks will end up running at the lower speed, but depending on the processor your RAM might not even be running at DDR2-667 anyway. What processor and motherboard are you using?

Edit: By the way, are you sure that adding the RAM will fix whatever issue you're having? It seems to me 2GB ought to be plenty for watching a movie.

 

[robphelan]

Originally posted by: DSF
All your sticks will end up running at the lower speed, but depending on the processor your RAM might not even be running at DDR2-667 anyway. What processor and motherboard are you using?

Edit: By the way, are you sure that adding the RAM will fix whatever issue you're having? It seems to me 2GB ought to be plenty for watching a movie.

forget what mobo (i'll have to check tonight). but the CPU is an AMD dual core 3800+

nope, i'm not sure that RAM will fix the issue... to get it to run smoothly, I normally have to terminate a few apps that are memory hogs (Beyond TV for sure, sometimes even Firefox when Memory Usage is high).

while running the movie, in Task Manager under Performance, the CPU usage often climbs to 75% or more.

I'm using Media Player Classic and FFDshow - maybe FFDshow is the problem.

EDIT: a few notes - i'm using an Nvidia 7900 GT CO video card, my resolution on my primary monitor(Dell 2405fpw) is 1920 x 1200 and the projector is running 1024 x 768.