- Nov 6, 2005
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I have a computer system I bought used. It has a asrock K8NF4G-SATA2 mother board
with only two ram slots for taking DDR PC3200 ram. One slot is populated with 512MB of
corsair vs512MB400 cl2.5---and the other slots has some 256 MB of nanya ram I am far less clear about--(1) I am not sure the nanya stick is running at PC 400 or PC 333. (2) the cas latency is 3.0 for the nanya stick as far as I can see. The ram timings for both sticks seem to be reported as 3-3-3-8 with a timing of 2t. Running Memtest86 on both sticks shows no ram errors.----the system processor is a sempron 64 bit 3000+.
Eventually, I would like to replace the nanya stick with another stick of 512MB or 1 GB of DDR PC3200 ram with a cas latency of 2.5.
Then I would know that both ram sticks would be running at PC3200 and might get my timing down to a 1t settings. The question is, if I accomplish both objectives---in percent---how must faster would my ram transfer rate be?---and no, I do not plan to overclock.
Or am I dollar wise better off trying to replace my socket 754 sempron with a better up to
athlon 64 3700+. In terms of my computing needs, 768 MB ram is enough but 1 GB will be pretty well needed if I ever upgrade to vista.---or start gaming or running some photo editing software.
with only two ram slots for taking DDR PC3200 ram. One slot is populated with 512MB of
corsair vs512MB400 cl2.5---and the other slots has some 256 MB of nanya ram I am far less clear about--(1) I am not sure the nanya stick is running at PC 400 or PC 333. (2) the cas latency is 3.0 for the nanya stick as far as I can see. The ram timings for both sticks seem to be reported as 3-3-3-8 with a timing of 2t. Running Memtest86 on both sticks shows no ram errors.----the system processor is a sempron 64 bit 3000+.
Eventually, I would like to replace the nanya stick with another stick of 512MB or 1 GB of DDR PC3200 ram with a cas latency of 2.5.
Then I would know that both ram sticks would be running at PC3200 and might get my timing down to a 1t settings. The question is, if I accomplish both objectives---in percent---how must faster would my ram transfer rate be?---and no, I do not plan to overclock.
Or am I dollar wise better off trying to replace my socket 754 sempron with a better up to
athlon 64 3700+. In terms of my computing needs, 768 MB ram is enough but 1 GB will be pretty well needed if I ever upgrade to vista.---or start gaming or running some photo editing software.
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