Two Better than One

[imported_Observer]

I am currently building a Amd 939 Sli System, but cant decide wheather I should go for Two Dims of 512 or One Dimm of one Gig. I appreciate it is a Dual channel board, but is the advantage of Dual channel so big over the Up grade path later on ie another 1 gig Dimm ?? any suggests or site links would be appreciated.

 

[arcenite]

if you're using an nforce4 chipset use one stick so you have the possibility of upgrading in the future to 2 gigs without hassle

Bill

 

[imported_Observer]

Ok....sort of along the lines I was thinking , thanks for the .help

 

[wchou]

Two computer is always better then one even if one is twice as fast or even thrice as fast
2@ 1.6ghz will smoke 1@3.0ghz any days of the week.
But you're talking memory right? sure one stick of 512mb is always better then 2 256mb
Using two different stick of 512mb vs a gig of ram will give you instability as I have found out trying to use 2 256mb that are of different brand

 

[l Xes l]

i'd go 2x512.. even if u wanna upgrade in future for 2gigs.. the sticks are not going to match up (unless u wanna buy an old stick like yours).... and better and faster rams will be cheaper and more available den..

 

[cryogenic666]

plus you'll be able to sell the 2x512 setup. Dual channel offers a large boost in memory bandwidth performance. Check any benchmarks where they benchmark an equivalent S939 and S754 A64. Memory bandwidth is a large amount higher on a dual channel setup.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: wchou
Two computer is always better then one even if one is twice as fast or even thrice as fast
2@ 1.6ghz will smoke 1@3.0ghz any days of the week.
But you're talking memory right? sure one stick of 512mb is always better then 2 256mb
Using two different stick of 512mb vs a gig of ram will give you instability as I have found out trying to use 2 256mb that are of different brand

Stop smoking crack, or whatever it is you are smoking, please.

Really, I don't think it will make much difference, unless you plan on upgrading beyond 1GB within the fairly near future.
I believe some nForce 4 motherboards have issues running 4 sticks at low command rates/timings, but I'm not totally sure. I think that's probably the only issue you might run into, if you go 2x512MB and want to upgrade "soon".

 

[BurnItDwn]

I would probably say 1 stick of 1gb is a better idea in general, however, 2 x 512MB sticks tends to cost a decent amount less than 1 x 1GB stick, so you may want to go that route just to keep initial build costs within budget.

 

[Cheesetogo]

Doesn't the board your using have four dimms? Are you planning on gettiung four gigs of ram or somthing?

 

[imported_Observer]

Thanks again ppl: Cheese yes my board does have 4 Dimm slots, however 939's dont like running 4 dimms and M/b makers recommend you clock the memory back to 333 for stability. So thats is why I want to fig which way to jump 1 at 1 gig or the two 512. With gaming the way it is, who knows how long before 2 Gigs is the standard, like one Gig really is now.
BunItDwn price isnt too much of an issue, I am not looking at too cutting edge stuff, just something of a reasonable make.
well back to the researching